Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions
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JAAKKO HINTIKKA SELECTED PAPERS VOLUME 4
JAAKKO HINTIKKA Boston University
PARADIGMS FOR
LANGUAGE THEORY AND OTHER ESSAYS
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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-4930-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2531-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
vii
INTRODUCTION
ix
1.
"The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry"
2.
"No Scope for Scope?"
22
3.
(with Gabriel Sandu) "Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon"
52
4.
"'Is', Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity"
71
5.
"Logical Form and Linguistic Theory"
107
6.
"On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics"
124
7.
"Paradigms for Language Theory"
146
8.
(with Gabriel Sandu) "The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference"
175
9.
"Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and 'Small Worlds'"
219
10.
"Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories"
250
11.
(with Gabriel Sandu) "Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning"
274
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
The following list indicates the first publication forums of the different essays included in the present volume (the forthcoming publication forum, if an essay appears here for the first time): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
"The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry", Dialectica vol. 49 (1995), pp. 229-249. "No Scope for Scope?", Linguistics and Philosophy vol. 20 (1997), pp. 515-544. (with Gabriel Sandu) "Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon", in J.-E. Fenstad et aI., editors, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1989, pp. 571-589. "'Is', Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity", Journal of Philosophical Logic vol. 8 (1979), pp. 433-468. "Logical Form and Linguistic Theory", in Alexander George, editor, Reflections on Chomsky, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989, pp. 41-57. "On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics", Linguistics and Philosophy vol. 4 (1980), pp. 101-122. "Paradigms for Language Theory", Acta Philosophica Fennica vol. 49 (1990), pp. 181-209. (with Gabriel Sandu) "The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference", Synthese vol. 104 (1995), pp. 245-283 (with two appendices). "Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and 'Small Worlds"', not previously published. "Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories", in New Directions in Semantics (Cognitive Science Series, Ernest LePore, editor, Academic Press
