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  1. Philosophical grammar: part I, The proposition, and its sense, part II, On logic and mathematics.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1974 - Berkeley: University of California Press. Edited by Rush Rhees.
    i How can one talk about 'understanding' and 'not understanding' a proposition? Surely it is not a proposition until it's understood ? ...
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    Events and Grammar.Susan Rothstein - 1998 - Springer.
    This volume covers a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. It addresses event arguments and thematic argument structure, the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions, events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates, and the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations. It is of interest to scholars and students of theoretical linguistics, philosophers of language, computational linguists, and computer scientists.
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    Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar.Mark Johnson - 1989 - Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications.
    Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute-value based theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts and in computational linguistics. This book provides a formal analysis of attribute-value structures, their use in a theory of grammar and the representation of grammatical relations in such theories of grammar. It provides a classical treatment of disjunction and negation, and explores the linguistic implications of different representations of grammatical relations. Mark Johnson is assistant professor (...)
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    Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics.Francesco Bellucci - 2017 - London: Routledge.
    _Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics _offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce’s theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce’s grammatical writings from his early research on the classification of arguments in the 1860s up to the complex semiotic taxonomies elaborated in the first decade of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to academic specialists working on Peirce, the history of American philosophy and pragmatism, the philosophy of language, the (...)
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    Topic, focus, and configurationality: papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984.Werner Abraham & Sjaak de Meij (eds.) - 1986 - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    INTRODUCTION WERNER ABRAHAM, LACI MARÁCZ, SJAAK DE MEY & WIM SCHERPENISSE University of Groningen The Groningen Conference on Topic, ...
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    Grammar in early twentieth-century philosophy.Richard Gaskin (ed.) - 2001 - New York: Routledge.
    In this book, ten essays examine the contributions made to the issue of the philosophical significance of grammar by Frege, Russell, Bradley, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Carnap and Heidegger.
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  7. Dynamics of meaning: anaphora, presupposition, and the theory of grammar.Gennaro Chierchia - 1995 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    In The Dynamics of Meaning , Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework. Chapter 1 introduces the notion of dynamic semantics and discusses in detail the phenomena that have been used to motivate it, such as "donkey" sentences and adverbs of quantification. The second chapter explores in greater depth the interpretation of indefinites and issues related to presuppositions of uniqueness and the "E-type strategy." In Chapter 3, Chierchia extends the dynamic approach to the (...)
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    The Grammar of Adverbials: A Study in the Semantics and Syntax of Adverbial Constructions.Renate Bartsch - 1976 - North-Holland.
    Interesting observations and problems emerge as the author pursues a complete calculus of an adverbial logic. Author Bartsch establishes a total of 18 adverbial subcategories and proposes an equal number of logico-semantic basic constructions in a predicate logical notation to explain them. The logico-semantic basic constructions bring out certain aspects of adverbial semantics, insofar as they can be specified by predicate logical means. However, for a logical and linguistic analysis of adverbials to be complete, sentence semantic analysis - provided it (...)
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    The grammar of expressivity.Daniel Gutzmann - 2019 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker... Daniel Gutzmann demonstrates that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of these utterances, and argues that expressivity is in fact a syntactic feature on a par with other established features such as tense and gender. Evidence for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of (...)
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    (1 other version)Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar.Michael N. Forster - 2004 - Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.
    What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions. Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a generalized version of Kant's transcendental idealist solution to a puzzle about necessity. It also (...)
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    Type-theoretical Grammar.Aarne Ranta - 1994 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press on Demand.
    It is the aim of INDICES to document recent explorations in the various fields of philosophical logic and formal linguistics and their applications in other disciplines. The main emphasis of this series is on self-contained monographs covering particular areas of recent research and surveys of methods, problems, and results in all fields of inquiry where recourse to logical analysis and logical methods has been fruitful. INDICES will contain monographs dealing with the central areas of philosophical logic (extensional and intensional systems, (...)
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    (1 other version)Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar.P. F. Strawson - 1974 - Burlington, VT: Routledge.
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    Getting one's words into line: on word order and functional grammar.Jan Nuyts & G. De Schutter (eds.) - 1987 - Providence, RI, USA: Foris Publications.
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    The grammar of the nominal sentence: a government-binding approach.Zvi Penner - 1988 - [Bern]: Universitaet Bern, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
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    Syntax, generative grammar.E. K. Brown - 1982 - London: Hutchinson. Edited by J. E. Miller.
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    Grammar and logic.Vladimir Zinov'evich Panfilov - 1968 - Paris,: Mouton.
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    From grammar to meaning: the spontaneous logicality of language.Ivano Caponigro & Carlo Cecchetto (eds.) - 2013 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for (...)
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    Quantification and Syntactic Theory.R. Cooper & Roger Cooper - 1983 - Dordrecht: Reidel.
    The format of this book is unusual, especially for a book about linguistics. The book is meant primarily as a research monograph aimed at linguists who have some background in formal semantics, e. g. Montague Grammar. However, I have two other audiences in mind. Linguists who have little or no experience of formal semantics, but who have worked through a basic mathematics for linguists course (e. g. using Wall, 1972, or Partee, 1978), should, perhaps with the help of a sympathetic (...)
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    Switch-reference and universal grammar: proceedings of a Symposium on Switch Reference and Universal Grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981.John Haiman & Pamela Munro (eds.) - 1983 - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    The contributions to this volume are concerned with questions of form, function, and genesis of canonical switch-reference systems.
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    Grammar in philosophy.Bede Rundle - 1979 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Phenomenology as Grammar.Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.) - 2008 - Heusenstamm [Germany]: De Gruyter.
    This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein s thoughts on phenomenology. One of its aims is to consider and examine the lasting importance of phenomenology for philosophic discussion. For E. Husserl phenomenology was a discipline that endeavoured to describe how the world is constituted and experienced through a series of conscious acts. (...)
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    Word-order based grammar.Eva Koktova - 1999 - New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
    In this book, a new theory of grammar based on word order is proposed: a deep word order as the multipartioned communicative-information structure of the ...
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  23. Simple sentences, substitution, and intuitions.Jennifer Mather Saul - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Substitution and simple sentences -- Simple sentences and semantics -- Simple sentences and implicatures -- The enlightenment problem and a common assumption -- Abandoning (EOI) -- Beyond matching propositions -- App. A : extending the account -- App. B : belief reporting.
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    Hans Reichenbach's philosophy of grammar.William E. McMahon - 1976 - The Hague: Mouton. Edited by Hans Reichenbach.
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    Rhetorical philosophy and philosophical grammar: Julius Caesar Scaliger's theory of language.Kristian Jensen - 1990 - München: Fink.
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    Generalized Quantifiers.Peter Gärdenfors (ed.) - 1987 - Reidel Publishing Company.
    Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians. Since then an increasing number of linguists and philosophers have become interested in exploring the relevance of general quantifiers for natural language as shown by the bibliography compiled for this volume. To a large extent, the new research has been inspired by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper's path-breaking article "Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language" from 1981. A (...)
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    Sentence and Discourse.Jacqueline Guéron (ed.) - 2015 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
    This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite (...)
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    Wittgenstein, grammar and God.Alan Keightley - 1976 - London: Epworth Press.
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    The syntax and semantics of split constructions: a comparative study.Alastair Butler - 2004 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. Edited by Eric Mathieu.
    Split constructions are widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit--namely, a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a (...)
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    (1 other version)Investigations in Modal and Tense Logics with Application to Problems in Philosophy and Linguistics.Dov M. Gabbay - 1979 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 44 (4):656-657.
  31. Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents.Knud Lambrecht - 1994 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? In this comprehensive study, Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of sentences and the linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts in which they are used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumptions about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. This relationship between speaker assumptions and (...)
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    Metaphysics and grammar.William Charlton - 2014 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    A study of the relation of metaphysics to grammar, placing the central topics of philosophy in an entirely new light.
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    Adverbial Modification: Interval Semantics and Its Rivals.M. J. Cresswell - 1985 - Springer.
    Adverbial modification is probably one of the least understood areas of linguistics. The essays in this volume all address the problem of how to give an analysis of adverbial modifiers within truth-conditional semantics. Chapters I-VI provide analyses of particular modifiers within a possible worlds framework, and were written between 1974 and 1981. Original publication details of these chapters may be found on p. vi. Of these, all but Chapter I make essential use of the idea that the time reference involved (...)
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    Freezing: theoretical approaches and empirical domains.Jutta Hartmann (ed.) - 2018 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Exploring the concepts of Freezing: Theoretical and empirical perspectives. Theoretical advancement. Ur Shlonsky and Luigi Rizzi: Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions -- Angel J. Gallego: Freezing Effects in a free-Merge System -- Gereon Maller: Freezing in complex prefields. Empirical domains. Norbert Corver: The Freezing points of the (Dutch) adjectival system -- Jutta M. Hartmann: Freezing in it-clefts: Movement and focus -- Josef Bayer: Criterial Freezing in the syntax of particles -- Michael S. Rochemont: Only (...)
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    Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax.Juan Uriagereka - 2000 - MIT Press.
    This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. The dialogue takes place over six days, with each day devoted to a particular topic--and the ensuing digressions. The role of the linguist is to present the fundamentals of the minimalist program of contemporary generative grammar. Although the linguist serves essentially as a voice for Noam Chomsky's ideas, he is not (...)
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    Plurals and Events.Barry Schein - 1993 - MIT Press.
    Barry Schein proposes combining a second-order treatment of plurals with DonaldDavidson's suggestion that there are positions for reference to events in ordinary predicates inorder to account for several of the more puzzling features of ...
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    Arguments and structure: studies on the architecture of the sentence.Teun Hoekstra - 2004 - New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Edited by R. P. E. Sybesma.
    Possession and transitivity -- The indirect object, its status and place -- Categories and arguments -- The active-passive configuration -- Verbal affixation -- Why Kaatje was not heard sing a song (with Hans Bennis) -- T-chains and auxiliaries (with Jacqueline Guéron) -- Clitics in romance and the study of head-movement -- ECP, tense and islands -- Bracketing paradoxes do not exist (with Harry van der Hulst and Frans van der Putten) -- The nominal infinitive (with Pim Wehrmann) -- Parallels between (...)
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  38. Syntax in functional grammar: an introduction to lexicogrammar in systemic linguistics.George David Morley - 2000 - New York: Continuum.
    This well-illustrated book outlines a framework for the analysis of syntactic structure from a perspective of a systematic functional grammar.
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    Intermediate Quantities: Logic, Linguistics, and Aristotelian Semantics.Philip L. Peterson - 2000 - Ashgate Publishing.
    Intermediate Quantitifiers presents and analyzes the logical and linguistic features of intermediate quantifiers, in a fashion typical of traditional logic. Intermediate quantifiers express logical quantities which fall between Aristotle's two quantities of categorical propositions - the universal and the particular. This book is the first to use traditional methods to integrate the logic and semantics of intermediate quantifiers with the two traditional quantities. Few, many and most express the most commonly referred to intermediate quantities, yet in this book Peterson argues (...)
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    The semantics of grammar.Anna Wierzbicka - 1988 - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    Introduction 1. Language and meaning Nothing is as easily overlooked, or as easily forgotten, as the most obvious truths. The tenet that language is a tool ...
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    Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences.Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten & Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.) - 2014 - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
    Dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management - more specifically information structure and reference tracking - come together.
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  42. Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science.Friederike Moltmann (ed.) - 2020 - Amsterdam: Benjamins.
    The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and counting. The mass-count distinction is certainly one of the most interesting and puzzling topics in syntax and semantics that bears on ontology and cognitive science. In many ways, the topic remains under-researched, though, across languages and with respect to particular (...)
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    Edges in syntax: scrambling and cyclic linearization.Heejeong Ko - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax. In particular, it offers a valuable contribution to the current debate concerning the effect of cyclic Spell-out on the (re-)ordering of elements in scrambling. Heejeong Ko provides in-depth discussion of the interaction of the syntax-phonology interface with operations at the syntax proper, as well as examining how the semantic meaning of a structure can be correlated with certain types of orderings in cyclic (...)
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    Algebraic Semantics in Language and Philosophy.Godehard Link - 1998 - CSLI Publications.
    An analysis of the structural properties of collections or pluralities, homogeneous objects like water, and the semantics and philosophy of events.
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    Factivity: its nature and acquisition.Petra Schulz - 2003 - Tübingen: M. Niemeyer.
    Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of T'ubingen.
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    Temporal Representation and Inference.Barry Richards, Inge Bethke, Jon Oberlander & Jaap van der Does - 1989
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    Statements and exhortations.Erik Ryding - 1980 - Lund, Sweden: Doxa.
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    Think Generic!: The Meaning and Use of Generic Sentences.Ariel Cohen - 1999 - Stanford: CSLI.
    Our knowledge about the world is often expressed by generic sentences, yet their meanings are far from clear. This book provides answers to central problems concerning generics: what do they mean? Which factors affect their interpretation? How can one reason with generics? Cohen proposes that the meanings of generics are probability judgments, and shows how this view accounts for many of their puzzling properties, including lawlikeness. Generics are evaluated with respect to alternatives. Cohen argues that alternatives are induced by the (...)
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    The semantics of syntax: a minimalist approach to grammar.Denis Bouchard - 1995 - Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
    During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels--phonological, syntactic, and semantic--and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so complex, linguists often posit an equally complex relationship between semantic and other levels of grammar. The Semantics of Syntax (...)
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    Word order matters: current issues in syntax and morpho-syntax.Jacek Witkoś & Przemysław Tajsner (eds.) - 2022 - New York: Peter Lang.
    This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the theory of relativization to reason clauses. It continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered (...)
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