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Logic in Grammar - Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention (Paperback)
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Logic in Grammar - Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics
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This book investigates the relation between language and logic.
Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential
processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free
choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized
scalar implicature and seeks to identify the common core of the
polarity system by examining many of its manifestations as well as
the choices that determine its diversity. To do so he reassesses
the relations between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and in the
process makes startling insights into the relation of syntax to
logic. Rudolf Carnap's classic, The Logical Syntax of Language,
defines syntax as a lexicon and a set of formation rules and logic
as a set of inference rules. Modern generative linguistics
maintains a similar modular approach: a combinatorial apparatus is
said to generate structures over which semantic and pragmatic
relations, such as presupposition and implicature, are defined.
This book argues by contrast that many structures typically
perceived as syntactically deviant owe their status to their
logical properties, in other words to whether they are
contradictory or analytically true in specific ways. This alters
the Carnapian view. The characterization of grammatical structure
requires a more direct role of logical inferences: the functional
lexicon of grammar comes, Professor Chierchia shows, with a set of
inference rules that crucially and directly determine
grammaticality patterns. Logic in Grammar presents the results of
the author's decade-long work on pragmatics and scalar implicatures
and extends his long-term project on how humans reason and
categorize the world. It is a book that will interest linguists,
philosophers, and cognitive scientists alike.
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