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Author Lappin, Shalom

Title Sorts, ontology, and metaphor : the semantics of sortal structure / Shalom Lappin
Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (x, 173 pages)
Series Foundations of communication
Foundations of communication.
Contents ""Introduction""; ""Part I""; ""Chapter 1: Syntactic Theories""; ""1. The Theory of Logical Types""; ""2. Many-Sorted Topic""; ""Chapter 2: Linguistic Semantics""; ""1. Semantic Marker Theory : Deep Structure Interpretivism""; ""2. Generative Semantics""; ""3. The Extended Standard Theory: Surface Structure Interpretivism""; ""Chapter 3: Philosophical Theories""; ""1. Sortally Incorrect Sentences as False Statements""; ""2. Drange�s “Unthinkability� Account""; ""3. Sommers� Type Rules""; ""Chapter 4: Significance Logics: The Goddard-Routley Program""; ""Chapter 5: Formal Semantics""
""1. Superevaluations: Thomason�s Theory""""2. Two-Dimensional Semantics: The Herzberger-Martin Approach""; ""3. Bergmann�s Synthesis""; ""Part II""; ""Chapter 6: A Criterion of Sortal Incorrectness""; ""1. Defining CSI""; ""2. Revising Classical Notions of Validity and Soundness in Light of CSI""; ""Chapter 7: Sortal Incorrectness, Ontological Categories, and Semantic Well-Formedness""; ""1. Ontological Categories""; ""2. The Decidability of Semantic Well-Formedness""; ""Chapter 8: Sortal Incorrectness and Metaphor""; ""Part III""; ""Appendix A: A Theory of Sortal Incorrectness""
Appendix B: Extensions of the Theory1. Restricted Quantification -- 2. Adverbs -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-165) and index
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Subject Semantics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Semantics
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Semantics
Semantik
Inkompatibilität
Metapher
Ontologie
Semantische Kongruenz
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110837254
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