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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113886837X
• ISBN13: 9781138868373
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"