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6Review: Esa Saarinen, Game-theoretical Sematics (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 51 (1): 240-244. 1986.
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2On events in linguistic semanticsIn James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi & Achille Varzi (eds.), Speaking of Events, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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69Jackendoff'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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20Tense, indexicality, and consequenceIn Jeremy Butterfield (ed.), The arguments of time, Published For the British Academy By Oxford University Press. pp. 197--215. 1999.
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1On second-order logic and natural languageIn Gila Sher & Richard L. Tieszen (eds.), Between Logic and Intuition: Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons, Cambridge University Press. pp. 79--99. 2000.
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1312. mass and count quantifiersIn Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 2--383. 1995.
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43Why is sequence of tense obligatory?In Gerhard Preyer Georg Peter (ed.), Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 207--227. 2002.
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38Truth and Reference as the Basis of MeaningIn Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Beginning with Frege Davidson's Program The Constitution of Meaning Theoretical Prospects.
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18Cresswell M. J.. Entities and indices. Studies in linguistics and philosophy, vol. 41. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, 1990, xi + 274 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (2): 723-725. 1993.
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103Remembering, imagining, and the first personIn Alex Barber (ed.), Epistemology of language, Oxford University Press. pp. 496--533. 2003.
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169On linguistics in philosophy, and philosophy in linguisticsLinguistics and Philosophy 25 (5-6): 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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73Languages and idiolects: their language and oursIn Barry C. Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 140--50. 2006.An idiolectal conception of language is compatible with a substantive role for external things — objects, including other people — in the characterization of idiolects. Illustrations of this role are not hard to come by. The point of looking outward from the individual is pretty evident for the case of reference to perceptually encountered objects: had the world been significantly different, a person with the same molecular history would have acquired, and called by the same familiar names, diff…Read more
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181Speaking 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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