Paul Elbourne

Definite Descriptions

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660209
• ISBN-10: 0199660204
• Artikelnr.: 37330227

Autorenporträt

Paul Elbourne is Reader in Semantics at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Situations and Individuals (MIT Press 2005), Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics (OUP 2011), and numerous articles in linguistics and philosophy journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Situation Semantics
3: The Definite Article
4: Presupposition
5: Referential and Attributive
6: Anaphora
7: Modality Existence Entailments
8: Existence Entailments
9: Incompleteness
10: Pronouns
11: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index