Logic as grammar: an approach to meaning in natural language
Date: 02 Sep 2010, 07:58
Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262580829 | 192 pages | PDF | 42,5 MB How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others - an approach that makes use of semantical notions like "truth" and "reference" - should be replaced by a theory drawn from the syntactical vocabulary of generative grammar.
