In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implic…
by Craig, Colette Grinevald, University of Oregon., Cognitive science program, University of Oregon., Linguistics Department, University of Oregon., Psychology Department, Symposium on Categorization and Noun Classification, Eugene, Or.)
fromTypological studies in language : (TSL)
Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and lingu…
