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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785835003321

Autore

Barth E. M

Titolo

Problems, functions and semantic roles [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatists' analysis of Montague's theory of sentence meaning / / E.M. Barth and R.T.P. Wiche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 1986

ISBN

3-11-086528-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Grundlagen der Kommunikation = Foundations of communication

Classificazione

ET 480

Altri autori (Persone)

WicheR. T. P

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Suppositiones terminorum in the twentieth century: Suppositio functionalis and functional being -- I. Intentional intensions -- II. Functional sentence perspective and syntactically ambiguous sentences in ordinary English -- III. A first theory of the Interpreter's representational apparatus: Enriched English (EE) and Begriffsschrift No. 2 -- IV. Individual-relational meaning postulates in Enriched English; or, link with Begriffsschrift No. 1 -- V. Improved theory of the Interpreter's representational language - Intensional English (IE) and Begriffsschrift No. 3 -- VI. A systematic description of the Interpreter's reconstructions - Ajdukiewicz grammars and their uses -- VII. Substantive common nouns and the reification of individual-functions -- VIII. Existence, negation and roles: Prolegomena to a pragmatic theory of denotation and existential import in "negative sentences" -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Back matter