Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Grammar Of Identity Statements full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Grammar Of Identity Statements ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Thomas V. Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Understanding Identity Statements written by Thomas V. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fiengo
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262560764
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Indices and Identity written by Robert Fiengo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different? Indices and Identity focuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on the role of indices in characterizing syntactic and semantic identity of expressions. Fiengo and May develop two main themes within the theory of anaphora. The first pertains to the meaning of coindexing and non-coindexing--the correspondence between indexical relations among expressions and the valuation relation that holds among them--while the second is the development of Dependency Theory, the theory of the relations of occurrences of indices. The novelty of Fiengo and May's approach lies with their characterization of indexical dependencies and the conditions under which structures manifest the same or different dependency. In particular, Indices and Identity emphasizes issues raised by strict and sloppy identity in ellipsis, exploring what Fiengo and May call the eliminative puzzles of ellipsis. The significance of these puzzles is that they show the shortcomings of current theories of anaphora in ellipsis, while illustrating an application of Dependency Theory to complex cases of strict and sloppy identity. Elliptical contexts in turn lead to consideration of the embedding of the formal syntactic notions of identity arising from indices and dependencies within more general notions of structural identity. This relates to a consideration of the foundations of reconstruction, which, the authors argue, is syntactic identity up to indexical identity and vehicle change--variation in the syntactic form of expression of arguments.The book concludes with a discussion of the relation of reconstruction, logical representation in grammar, and the application of grammatical constraints. The discussion focuses on antecedent contained deletion, and stands independently as a comprehensive study of this construction. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 24
Author : John M. Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191538132
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Names written by John M. Anderson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behaviour of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic circumstances: one involving vocatives and their use in naming predications, where they are not definite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in relation to English, French, Greek, and Seri, and a range of other languages. Professor Anderson reveals that the semantic status of names, including prototypicality, is crucial to understanding their morphosyntax and role in derivational relationships. He shows that semantically coherent subsets of names, such as those referring to people and places, are characterized by morphosyntactic properties which may vary from language to language. His original and important investigation will appeal to scholars and advanced students of linguistics and philosophy.
Author : María J. Arche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192565427
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages written by María J. Arche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.
Author : Joseph LaPorte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199609209
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Rigid Designation and Theoretical Identities written by Joseph LaPorte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical identities.
Author : Aaron James
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625648405
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Analogous Uses of Language, Eucharistic Identity, and the 'baptist' Vision written by Aaron James and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers a 'baptist' account of the identity of the church, Jesus' body, and the communion elements in the Lord's Supper. It does so in conversation with Thomas Aquinas, Balthasar Hubmaier, and James Wm. McClendon, Jr. in the context of contemporary Baptist engagements with ecumenical Christianity and of contemporary philosophy of language. In a very creative and imaginative way it sets the stage for an account of the identity of Jesus' body, the bread and wine, and the church, that makes a constructive contribution to ecumenical Christianity
Author : Paulo M. Barroso
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443881619
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Grammar, Expressiveness, and Inter-subjective Meanings written by Paulo M. Barroso and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we learn, use, and understand the meaning of words representing sensations? How is the connection between words and sensations structured? How can outward signs of sensations be manifested? What does it mean “to understand someone”? Is semantics affected by inner states? What does one mean when one uses an expression to describe a sensation? How should such success in communication be defined? Grammar, Expressiveness, and Inter-subjective Meanings: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology deals with these questions, examining the peculiar uses of language-games representing sensations (such as “thinking”, “seeing such-and-such”, and “I’m in pain”) and exploring outer references to inner states. Externalising something internal gives expression to the psychological experience. As such, an expression should be understood as a sophisticated form of exteriorising experiences. This book clarifies the use of sense-expressions and the praxis of “bringing to expression” as an inter-subjective meaning process. The central focus of the book entails both the outwardness of language and the inwardness of experience, as was intensively remarked by Wittgenstein’s last writings (namely his lectures from 1946–47, exclusively and remarkably concerning the philosophy of psychology), which were recently published and which, despite their importance and originality, are still little known.
Author : Christopher New
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113482520X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Literature written by Christopher New and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, like the visual arts, poses its own philosophical problems. While literary theorists have discussed the nature of literature intensively, analytic philosophers have usually dealt with literary problems either within the general framework of aesthetics or else in a way that is accessible only to a philosophical audience. The present book is unique in that it introduces the philosophy of literature from an analytic perspective accessible to both students of literature and students of philosophy. Specifically, the book addresses: the definition of literature, the distinction between oral and written literature and the identity of literary works the nature of fiction and our emotional involvement with fictional characters the concept of imagination and its role in the apprehension of literary works theories of metaphor and postmodernist theory on the significance of the authors' intentions to the interpretationof their work an examination of the relevance of thruth and morality to literary appreciation Lucid and well organised and free from jargon, hilosophy of Literature: An Introduction offers fresh approaches to traditional problems and raises new issues in the philosophy of literature.
Author : David Braine
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221749
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Language and Human Understanding written by David Braine and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists. He concludes that one extended logic or integrated semantic syntax shapes grammar, but without constricting languages to being of one grammatical type.
Author : Daniel García Velasco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110205378
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar written by Daniel García Velasco and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar. In its current form, FDG has an explicit top-down organization and distinguishes four hierarchically organized, interacting levels: (i) the interpersonal level (language as communicational process), (ii) the representational level (language as a carrier of content), (iii) the morphosyntactic level and (iv) the phonological level. Together they constitute the grammatical component, which in its turn interacts with a cognitive and a communicative component. This comprehensive approach to linguistic analysis is also reflected in this volume, which contains rich and substantial contributions concerning many different aspects of the noun phrase. At the same time, the analysis of a major linguistic construction from various perspectives is an excellent way to test a new model of grammar with regard to some of the standards of adequacy for linguistic theories. The book contains several papers dealing with matters of representation and formalization of the noun phrase (the articles by Kees Hengeveld, José Luis González Escribano, Jan Rijkhoff and Evelien Keizer). Other contributors are more concerned with the practical application of the model with regard to discourse-interpersonal matters (Chris Butler, John H. Connolly), whereas the chapters by Dik Bakker and Roland Pfau and by Daniel García Velasco deal with morphosyntactic issues. In all, the variety of issues addressed and the range of languages considered prove that one of the important advantages of the FDG model is precisely the fact that grammatical phenomena can be treated from a semantic, pragmatic, morpho-syntactic, phonological or textual perspective in a coherent fashion.
Author : Peter J. Burke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441991883
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Advances in Identity Theory and Research written by Peter J. Burke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is presented in four sections based on recent research in the field: the sources of identity, the tie between identity and the social structure, the non-cognitive outcomes - such as emotional - of identity processes, and the idea that individuals have multiple identities. This timely work will be of interest to social psychologists in sociology and psychology, behavioral scientists, and political scientists.
Author : J. Angouri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023036005X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Constructing Identities at Work written by J. Angouri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate workplaces, to courtrooms, classrooms, and academia. The chapters consider how interactants do identity work and how identity is indexed (often in subtle ways) in workplace discourse.
Author : Ilhan Inan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000580881
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity written by Ilhan Inan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure. Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book focuses instead on language. By utilizing the Fregean idea that sentences are singular referring expressions, the author develops novel connections between the philosophical study of truth and falsity and the huge literature in in the philosophy of language on the notion of reference. The first part of the book constructs the author’s theory and argues for it in length. Part II addresses the ways in which the theory relates to, and is different from, some of the basic theories of truth. Part III takes up how to account for the truth of sentences with logical operators and quantifiers. Finally, Part IV discusses the applications and implications of the theory for longstanding problems in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and linguistics.
Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434276
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence Theory of Truth written by Andrew Newman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a realist view of universals. Part of the aim is to avoid Platonic propositions, and although sympathy with facts is maintained in the early chapters, the book argues that facts as real entities are not needed. It includes discussion of contemporary philosophers such as David Armstrong, William Alston and Paul Horwich, as well as those who write about propositions and facts, and a number of students of Bertrand Russell. It will interest teachers and advanced students of philosophy who are interested in the realistic conception of truth and in issues in metaphysics related to the correspondence theory of truth, and those interested in Russell and the Tractatus.
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520316754
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book CALIFORNIA STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, VOLUME 8 written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald S. Stroud
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520322843
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 7 written by Ronald S. Stroud and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Author : Raphael Mercado
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287759
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics written by Raphael Mercado and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory. Any theory that postulates a grammar that is common to all languages must take into account the particular characteristics of this language family. The contributions to this volume comprise five chapters on phonology and twelve chapters on syntax, all addressing aspects of these Austronesian challenges. The volume presents new data, new analyses of old data, and comparisons of closely related languages, as well as comparisons to languages outside of the language family. Taken together they form a unique picture of Austronesian linguistics. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language typology, as well as scholars of Austronesian languages.
