From Whorf to Montague: explorations in the theory of language
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Autor: Seuren, Pieter A. M
Jahr: 2013
Contents
Preface xv
Abbreviations and symbols xvii
Introduction i
i The settling of a language 7
1.1 A language as part of social reality 7
1.2 Languages go their own way 15
1.2.1 The arbitrary extension of semantic categories 16
1.2.2 Semantic bleaching 17
1.2.3 Auxiliation 19
1.2.4 Perfective auxiliaries: have or be 21
1.2.5 Subtle near-synonyms: use conditions versus truth conditions 22
1.3 Creolization: the case of Sranan 25
1.4 The heteromorphy problem 26
2 The Whorf hypothesis 29
2.1 Introduction 29
2.2 Some history 33
2.2.1 The Whorf hypothesis in North America 33
2.2.2 European Whorfianism : Leo Weisgerber 37
2.3 Whorf 40
2.3.1 The hypothesis analysed 40
2.3.2 The perennial problem: the direction of causality 42
2.3.3 Confusing the how and the what 43
2.3.4 The alleged primacy of language over cognition 44
2.3.5 Grammar as a formally definable system 46
2.3.6 Whorf s attitude towards mathematics and the sciences 47
2.3.7 Levels of thinking 48
2.3.8 Whorf s arguments: Hopi time and tense, Shawnee
sentence types 49
2.3.9 Language expresses thought: arguments against Whorf 55
2.4 Experimental testing 60
2.4.1 Inconclusive experiments 60
2.4.1.1 Colour 60
2.4.1.2 Levinson and absolute orientation 64
Contents
2.4.2 Getting closer 72
2.4.2.1 Bowerman and Choi (2003) 72
2.4.2.2 Which way does time fly? 75
2.4.2.3 Handedness 77
2.4.2.4 Length versus quantity in time measurement
expressions 79
2.5 Conclusion 82
3 Relativism or a universal theory? 85
3.1 Some necessary preliminaries 85
3.1.1 A terminological observation 85
3.1.2 Some observations regarding scientific methodology 88
3.2 Some history 96
3.3 Attitudes 101
3.4 Further notional clarity 105
3.5 What are universais of language ? 109
3.6 What to do with counterevidence? 114
3.7 Modularity, innateness, and the no negative evidence problem 117
3.7.1 Modularity and innateness 117
3.7.2 The no negative evidence problem 119
3.7.2.1 Internal anaphora resolution of definite terms 119
3.7.2.2 Internal versus external datives 121
3.7.2.3 English zero-causatives and ««-verbs: a universal
theory of the lexicon? 131
3.8 Towards a general theory of human language 135
3.8.1 A few proposals for universal properties of languages
and grammars 135
3.8.2 How about constituent structure? 140
3.9 Conclusion 144
4 What does language have to do with logic and mathematics? 147
4.1 Introduction 147
4.2 Language and logic 150
4.2.1 What is (a) logic? 150
4.2.2 The tradition 155
4.2.3 Syntax: the notion of a grammatical algorithm 157
4.2.4 Semantic syntax: propositions in logic, sentences in language 158
4.2.5 Semantics: model-theoretic semantic interpretation 160
4.3 Natural logic and natural set theory 164
4.4 The importance of scope relations 168
4.5 Conclusion 171
Contents xi
5. A test bed for grammatical theories 173
5.1 Introduction 173
5.2 Some class A facts 178
5.2.1 The epithet pronoun test 178
5.2.2 Topic-comment structure 185
5.2.2.1 Topic-comment structure and reflexivity 186
5.2.2.2 Topic-comment structure and anaphoric relations 188
5.2.2.3 Truth-conditional differences in topic-comment
structures 190
5.2.3 Scope and negation 191
5.2.3.1 NEG-Raising 192
5.2.3.2 AUX-Inversion, yes or no? 195
5.3 Some class B facts 196
5.3.1 German and Dutch verb clustering 197
5.3.2 The inflected infinitive in Portuguese 202
5.4 Conclusion 204
6. The Chomsky hierarchy in perspective 205
6.1 Introduction 205
6.2 What is an algorithm and why is this notion relevant for the study
of language? 210
6.3 The Chomsky hierarchy 214
6.3.1 The primitive generation of tree structures 214
6.3.2 Type-3 algorithms 216
6.3.2.1 Mh-order approximations 219
6.3.2.2 Entropy as a measure of meaningfulness 224
6.3.3 Context-free and context-sensitive grammars 225
6.4 The rise and fall, and then the rise again, of transformational
grammar 231
6.5 Autonomous Syntax and the evolution of language 233
6.6 Conclusion 238
7. Reflexivity and identity in language and cognition 239
7.1 The overall programme 239
7.2 Semantic reflexivity 242
7.3 Why do we need the True Binarity Principle? 243
7.4 The predicate of identity, or rather, identification 249
7.5 Is identity-be a counterexample to TBP? 251
7.6 Dynamic sentence meaning: discourse incrementation 254
7.7 Conclusion 256
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8. The generalized logic hierarchy and its cognitive implications 257
8.1 Introduction 257
8.2 The notion of valuation space 261
8.3 How to construct a VS-model for a logical system 263
8.4 Valuation spaces and polygons for other logical systems 273
8.4.1 Aristotelian-Abelardian predicate logic (AAPL) 273
8.4.2 Leaking the O-corner 274
8.4.3 Basic-natural predicate logic (BNPL) 280
8.4.3.1 The inadequacy of the Gricean solution 280
8.4.3.2 The logical system of BNPL 281
8.4.3.3 Unilateral and bilateral some: some tentative thoughts 286
8.4.3.4 The presuppositional solution 290
8.5 The Blanche hexagon 293
8.5.1 The logical aspects 293
8.5.2 Applications to conceptual fields and colours 294
8.5.3 The bi-triadic nature of the Blanche hexagon and, who
knows, of cognition 298
9. The intensionalization of extensions 301
9.1 Introduction 301
9.2 Some basic notions 302
9.2.1 Language as a system of conventional signs: what is meaning? 302
9.2.2 Propositions, intents, and L-propositions 303
9.2.3 Semantic questionnaires 304
9.2.4 Grammar, meaning, and cognition 306
9.2.5 Virtual and actual facts 307
9.2.6 Truth conditions and use conditions: settling phenomena 308
9.2.7 Comprehension is part of semantics; interpretation is not 309
9.2.8 Software realism and weak instrumentalism 311
9.2.9 Formal explicitation of natural cognitive systems 313
9.3 Critique of PWS 313
9.3.1 Foundations and methodology 313
9.3.2 Empirical inadequacy of PWS 315
9.3.3 Truth values as extensions and as Boolean 1 and 0 315
9.4 Intensions and the blocking of substitutivity 317
9.4.1 Frege s system of extensions and intensions 317
9.4.2 The cognitive view of intensions 320
9.5 The Kantian paradox of knowledge and virtual reality 321
9.6 The new game of extensions and intensions 323
9.7 The nature of facts 326
Contents xiii
9.8 Valuation spaces 326
9.9 The truth predicates 329
9.10 SSV in partiscient contexts 332
9.10.1 Under surface predicates 332
9.10.2 Under truth predicates and prepositional operators 332
9.10.3 Under epistemic modais 333
9.10.4 Doubtful cases 334
9.10.5 No happy extensionalist problem 335
9.11 Quantification 335
9.12 Conclusion 339
Bibliography 341
Index 357
From
Właorf
to Montague
Explorations in the Theory ofLangtiage
Pieter A. M.
Seuren
This book explores the relations between
language, the world, the minds of individual
speakers, and the collective minds of
particular language communities.
Pieter
Seuxen examines the status of abstract rule
systems underlying speech and considers
how much computational power may be
attributed to the human mind. The book
opens with chapters on the social reality
of language, the ancient question of the
primacy of language or thought, and the
relation between universal and language-
specific features. Professor Seuren then
considers links between language, logic,
and mathematics: he suggests the facts
of language require a theory with abstract
principles, and that grammars should be
seen as mediating between propositionally
structured thoughts and systems, such as
speech, for the production of utterances.
He argues that grammars are neither
autonomous nor independent of meaning.
He concludes by considering how a
fundamental rephrasing of the basic
principles of logic could reconnect it
with cognition and language and involve
a principled rejection of possible-
world semantics.
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