The Philosophy of Grammar
Title | The Philosophy of Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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The Philosophy of Grammar
Title | The Philosophy of Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 847 |
Release | 1965 |
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The Philosophy of Universal Grammar
Title | The Philosophy of Universal Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfram Hinzen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199654832 |
This interdisciplinary book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. The claim is that grammar provides homo sapiens with the ability to think in certain grammatical ways and that this in turn explains the vast cognitive powers of human beings. Evidence is considered from biology, theevolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.
Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis of Language
Title | Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Dino Buzzetti |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027245258 |
This volume brings together papers originally presented at a seminar series on Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis, held at the University of Bologna in 1984. The seminars aimed at considering various aspects of the interplay between linguistic theories on the one hand, and theories of meaning and logic on the other. The point of view was mainly historical, but a theoretical approach was also considered relevant. Theories of grammar and related topics were taken as a focal point of interest; their interaction with philosophical reflections on languages was examined in presentations dealing with different authors and periods, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Philosophical Grammar
Title | Philosophical Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780520037250 |
In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.
Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Title | Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Anneli Luhtala |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2005-02-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9027275122 |
This book examines the various philosophical influences contained in the ancient description of the noun. According to the traditional view, grammar adopted its philosophical categories in the second century B.C. and continued to make use of precisely the same concepts for over six hundred years, that is, until the time of Priscian (ca. 500). The standard view is questioned in this study, which investigates in detail the philosophy contained in Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae. This investigation reveals a distinctly Platonic element in Priscian’s grammar, which has not been recognised in linguistic historiography. Thus, grammar manifestly interacted with philosophy in Late Antiquity. This discovery led to the reconsideration of the origin of all the philosophical categories of the noun. Since the authenticity of the Techne, which was attributed to Dionysius Thrax, is now regarded as uncertain, it is possible to speculate that the semantic categories are derived from Late Antiquity.
Quantification in the Theory of Grammar
Title | Quantification in the Theory of Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Taisuke Nishigauchi |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9400919727 |
In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical structure of natural language from theoretical perspectives. The primary data on which theoretical claims are made is drawn from Japanese and Japanese-type languages, but it also contains discussion of related phenomena in English which have never been discussed from the same viewpoint in the current literature. Although the book is written in the format of a version of the Extended Standard Theory tradition, informally referred to as the Principles and Parameters Approach or 'Government and Binding (OB) Theory', it should be of interest to a much wider audience. The reader interested in other theoretical frameworks will find the discussion in this book easily translatable in the framework of his or her choice - in fact, I would like to claim that the problems posed by this book are inevitable in any theory of syntax and semantics of natural language.