Definitions: Implications for Syntax, Semantics, and the Language of Thought

by Annabel Cormack

The answer to the question "How can we understand and use a definition?" provides new constraints on natural language and on the internal language in which meaning is mentally represented. Most syntax takes the sentence as the basic unit for well-formedness, but definitions force us to focus on words and phrases, and hence to focus on compositional syntax in parallel with compositional semantics. This study examines both dictionary definitions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815331312
• ISBN13: 9780815331315
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"