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5The Semantics of QuestionsIn The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996.
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243Speaking of events (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.The idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. On the one hand, so many linguistic phenomena appear to be explained if (and, according to some authors, only if) we make room for logical forms in which reference to or quantification over events is explicitly featured. Examples include nominalization, adverbial modification, tense and aspect, plurals, and singular causal statements. On the o…Read more
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1On second-order logic and natural languageIn Gila Sher & Richard Tieszen (eds.), Between logic and intuition: essays in honor of Charles Parsons, Cambridge University Press. pp. 79--99. 2000.
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2812. mass and count quantifiersIn Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 2--383. 1995.
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164Remembering, imagining, and the first personIn Alex Barber (ed.), Epistemology of language, Oxford University Press. pp. 496--533. 2003.
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252On linguistics in philosophy, and philosophy in linguisticsLinguistics and Philosophy 25 (5): 573-584. 2002.After reviewing some major features of theinteractions between Linguistics and Philosophyin recent years, I suggest that the depth and breadthof current inquiry into semanticshas brought this subject into contact both with questionsof the nature of linguistic competence and with modern andtraditional philosophical study of the nature ofour thoughts, and the problems of metaphysics.I see this development as promising for thefuture of both subjects.
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129Jackendoff's conceptualismBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (6): 680-681. 2003.In this commentary, I concentrate upon Ray Jackendoff's view of the proper foundations for semantics within the context of generative grammar. Jackendoff (2002) favors a form of internalism that he calls “conceptualism.” I argue that a retreat from realism to conceptualism is not only unwarranted, but even self-defeating, in that the issues that prompt his view will inevitably reappear if the latter is adopted.
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203Visions and Revisions: A Critical Notice of Noam Chomsky’s The Minimalist ProgramMind and Language 13 (2). 1998.
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181Sententialism: The thesis that complement clauses refer to themselvesPhilosophical Issues 16 (1). 2006.
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1On the Nature of Language: A Basic ExpositionIn Manuel Garcia-Carpintero & Max Kolbel (eds.), The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language, Continuum International. 2012.
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