Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays, PDF eBook

Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays PDF

Part of the Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers series

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Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference.

In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.

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