Philosophy of language books

The aim of this book, first published in 1979, is to provide a sound basic introduction to the study of grammar...  Read More >>

This title, first published in 1979, centres on control and binding in networks of anaphora. A wide variety of phenomena...  Read More >>

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This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study...  Read More >>

This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of...  Read More >>

It demonstrates the key role of translation in thinking difference rather than identity, beginning with the work...  Read More >>

Meta-ethics explores the meaning of moral language with detailed comments and analysis of three major theories:...  Read More >>

'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer 'Language is a body, a living creature ... and...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories...  Read More >>

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First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential...  Read More >>

This book opens by accounting for the felicity conditions on clausal disjunctions in terms of general principles...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent...  Read More >>

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First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily...  Read More >>

This set reissues 22 books on syntax, originally published between 1971 and 1994. Together, the volumes cover key...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group...  Read More >>

This book investigates language in a broad framework, taking into account anthropology, psychology and evolutionary...  Read More >>

Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather,...  Read More >>

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