Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.
| ISBN: | 9789048149308 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2010 |
| Author: | Jaakko Hintikka |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Series: | Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers |
| Genres: |
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Philosophy: logic Linguistics |