Definite descriptions

Definite descriptions

by Elbourne, Paul

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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.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (262 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0199660204, 9780199660209, 1306074266, 9781306074261, 0191635626, 9780191635625
  • oclc:on1303399304
  • LC Classification:P299.D43
  • Dewey Decimal:401.43

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Situation Semantics; 2.1 On Situation Semantics; 2.2 Introduction to the Formal System; 2.3 The Formal System; 2.4 Some Situation-Semantic Technicalities; 3 The Definite Article; 3.1 Definite Descriptions in Frege and Strawson; 3.2 A Fregean Theory of the Definite Article; 4 Presupposition; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Presupposition Projection; 4.3 Possibility Modals; 4.4 Conditionals and Disjunction; 4.5 Negation; 4.6 Presupposition Obviation; 4.7 Conclusion; 5 Referential and Attributive; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A Problem for Russell?

5.3 A Problem for Frege and Strawson?5.4 Predicative Use; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Anaphora; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 A Donkey Sentence with a Relative Clause; 6.3 A Donkey Sentence with a Quantificational Adverb; 6.4 C-Commanded Bound Definite Descriptions; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Modality; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The De Re/De Dicto Ambiguity; 7.3 Going Back; 7.4 After Cresswell 1990; 7.5 After Kratzer 2010; 7.6 Conclusion; 8 Existence Entailments; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 HKE's Objection to Russell; 8.3 KN's Response to HKE; 8.4 A First Response to KN's Response; 8.5 A Second Response to KN's Response

8.6 The Fregean Theory8.7 Ot…

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Subjects

Definiteness (Linguistics) Frege, Gottlob

Writers

Elbourne, Paul

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