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What It All Means
Semantics for (Almost) Everything
ISBN: 9780262047432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control
ISBN: 9780262542852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control.
Words without Meaning
ISBN: 9780262571623
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2002
According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able...
What It All Means
Semantics for (Almost) Everything
ISBN: 9780262047432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control
ISBN: 9780262542852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control.
Words without Meaning
ISBN: 9780262571623
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2002
According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able...