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7Joseph Ullian. Failure of a conjecture about context free languages. Information and control, vol. 9 , pp. 61–65Journal of Symbolic Logic 32 (2): 266-267. 1967.
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57. Just how big are natural languages?In Harry van der Hulst (ed.), Recursion and Human Language, De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 139-146. 2010.
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10Review: Joseph Ullian, Failure of a Conjecture about Context Free Languages (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 32 (2): 266-267. 1967.
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4The projection problem for presuppositionsIn Charles J. Fillmore & D. Terence Langėndoen (eds.), Studies in linguistic semantics, Irvington. pp. 54--60. 1971.
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32A Note on the Linguistic Theory of M. Terentius VarroFoundations of Language 2 (1): 33-36. 1966.
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18Review: Seymour Ginsburg, Joseph Ullian, Ambiguity in Context Free Languages; Seymour Ginsburg, Joseph Ullian, Preservation of Unambiguity and Inherent Ambiguity in Context-Free; Thomas N. Hibbard, Joseph Ullian, The Independence of Inherent Ambiguity from Complementednes Among Context-Free Languages (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 33 (2): 301-302. 1968.
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5Linguistic TheoryIn William Bechtel & George Graham (eds.), A Companion to Cognitive Science, Blackwell. 2017.The goals of linguistic theory are to answer such questions as “What is language?” and “What properties must something (an organism or a machine) have in order for it to learn and use language?” Different theories provide different answers to these questions, and there is at present no general consensus as to what theory gives the best answers. Moreover, most linguists, when pressed, would say that these questions have not yet been answered satisfactorily by any theory.
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15Sets and sentencesIn Jerrold J. Katz (ed.), The Philosophy of linguistics, Oxford University Press. pp. 227--248. 1985.
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6Studies in Linguistic Semantics: Papers Presented at a Conference Sponsored by the Dept. Of Linguistics, Ohio State University, April 14-15, 1969 (edited book, review)Holt, Reinhart and Winston. 1971.
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178Essays on Form and Interpretation (review)Journal of Philosophy 75 (5): 270-279. 1978.This review analyzes Chomsky’s rationale for devising a theory of generative grammar to replace the “standard theory” of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) by one that shifts responsibility for the semantic interpretation of sentences from the forms generated in deep structure to those generated by the entire syntactic apparatus of generative grammar. The shift was very much a work in progress when this review was written, and the outcome it predicted occurred only a few years later with the…Read more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, 1984
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Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Formal Semantics |
Semantic Theories |
Semantic Phenomena |
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