This volume brings together papers originally presented at a seminar series on Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis, held at the University of Bologna in 1984. The seminars aimed at considering various aspects of the interplay between linguistic theories on the one hand
The Philosophy of Grammar
β Scribed by Otto Jespersen
- Year
- 1924
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 354
- Category
- Library
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This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at ColumbiaUniversity in 1909-10, called βAn Introduction to English Grammar.βIt is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the generalprinciples of grammar based on years of studying various languagesthrough both direct observati
What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is 'universal' grammar, in the sense that grammar is universal to human populations. But while modern generative grammar
<p>The papers in this collection are concerned with the epistemology of religious belief. The contributors disagree on such issues as whether philosophers have a role to play in determining the reasonableness or intelligibility of religious beliefs, or whether philosophy properly understood is a des