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Events and Semantic Architecture (Hardcover, New)
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Events and Semantic Architecture (Hardcover, New)
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This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning.
The meaning of a phrase clearly depends on its constituent words
and how they are combined. But how does structure contribute to
meaning in natural language? Does combining adjectives with nouns
(as in 'brown dog') differ semantically from combining verbs with
adverbs (as in 'barked loudly')? What is the significance of
combining verbs with names and quantificational expressions (as in
'Fido chased every cat')? In addressing such questions, Paul
Pietroski develops a novel conception of linguistic meaning
according to which the semantic contribution of combining
expressions is simple and uniform across constructions. Drawing on
work at the heart of contemporary debates in linguistics and
philosophy, the author argues that Donald Davidson's treatment of
action sentences as event descriptions should be viewed as an
instructive special case of a more general semantic theory. The
unified theory covers a wide range of examples, including sentences
that involve quantification, plurality, descriptions of complex
causal processes, and verbs that take sentential complements.
Professor Pietroski also provides fresh ways of thinking about much
discussed semantic generalizations that seem to reflect innately
determined aspects of human languages. Designed to be accessible to
anyone with a basic knowledge of elementary logic, Events and
Semantic Architecture will interest a wide range of scholars in
linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
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