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Author:   Jaakko Hintikka ,  Patrick Suppes ,  J.M.E. Moravcsik
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973
Volume:   49
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.740kg
ISBN:  

9789027702333

ISBN 10:   9027702330
Pages:   530
Publication Date:   31 October 1978
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Grammar.- 1. Sentence Stress and Syntactic Transformations.- 2. The Acquisition of Phonology and Syntax: A Preliminary Study.- 3. A Syntactical Analysis of Some First-Grade Readers.- 4. A Computational Treatment of Case Grammar.- 5. Identifiability of a Class of Transformational Grammars.- 6. On the Insufficiency of Surface Data for the Learning of Transformational Languages.- 7. Nonfiltering and Local-Filtering Transformational Grammars.- II. Semantics.- 8. Grammar and Logic: Some Borderline Problems.- 9. Comments on Hintikka’s Paper.- 10. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English.- 11. Comments on Montague’s Paper.- 12. Comments on Montague’s Paper.- 13. Mass Terms in English.- 14. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper.- 15. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper.- 16. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper.- 17. Reply to Comments.- 18. The Semantics of Belief-Sentences.- 19. Comments on Professor Partee’ s Paper.- 20. Comments on Partee’s Paper.- 21. Semantics of Context-free Fragments of Natural Languages.- 22. Representation of the Montague Semantics as a Form of the Suppes Semantics with Applications to the Problem of the Introduction of the Passive Voice, the Tenses, and Negation as Transformations.- III. Special Topics.- 23. On the Problem of Subject Structure in Language with Application to Late Archaic Chinese.- 24. Comments on Cheng’s Paper.- 25. Some Considerations for the Process of Topicalization.- 26 Late Lexicalizations.- 27. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.

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Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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