From Whorf to Montague: Explorations in the Theory of Language
Author:   Pieter A. M. Seuren (Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
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Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
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Author:   Pieter A. M. Seuren (Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780199682195


ISBN 10:   0199682194
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction 1: The Settling of a Language 2: The Whorf Hypothesis 3: Relativism or a Universal Theory? 4: What Does Language have to do With Logic and Mathematics? 5: A Testbed for Grammatical Theories 6: The Chomsky Hierarchy in Perspective 7: Reflexivity and Identity in Language and Cognition 8: The Generalized Logic Hierarchy and its Cognitive Implications 9: The Intensionalization of Extensions Bibliography Index

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Seuren's most recent contribution to the field of linguistics sets out to lay the foundations for a research program that conceives of grammar as consisting in a semantically rich natural logic mediating propositional thoughts and systems responsible for the production of utterances. [] Recommended. A. L. Morton, Choice,


Seuren's most recent contribution to the field of linguistics sets out to lay the foundations for a research program that conceives of grammar as consisting in a semantically rich natural logic mediating propositional thoughts and systems responsible for the production of utterances. [] Recommended. * A. L. Morton, Choice, *


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Pieter Seuren has been a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen since 1999 when he retired as Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His books include Discourse Semantics and Semantic Syntax (Blackwell 1985 and 1996) and A View of Language (OUP 2001), Language in Cognition, and The Logic of Language (OUP, 2001, 2009, and 2010).

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