The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language
The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language

Author: Luis H. González

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-07

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1000356515

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The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker presents a data-driven approach to understanding how native speakers do not use subject and direct object to process language. Native speakers know who does what in a sentence by applying intuitively two simple inferences that are argued to be part of universal grammar. The book explains and exemplifies these two inferences throughout. These two inferences explain the native speaker’s ease of acquisition and use, and answer difficult questions for linguistics (transitivity, case, semantic roles) in such a way that undergraduate students and second language learners can understand these concepts and apply them to their own language acquisition. While Spanish is used as the primary example, the theory can be applied to many other languages. This book will appeal to teachers and learners of any second language, as well as linguists interested in second language acquisition, in second language teaching, and in argument structure.

Language, Logic and Method
Language, Logic and Method

Author: Robert S. Cohen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9400977026

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Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints. We have brought a number of quite basic studies of these issues together in this volume, not linked con ceptually nor by any rigorously defined problematic, but rather simply some of the most interesting and even provocative of recent research accomplish ments. Most of these papers are derived from the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science during 1973-80, the two exceptions being those of Karel Berka (on scales of measurement) and A. A. Zinov'ev (on a non-tradi tional theory of quantifiers). Just how intriguing these results (or conjectures?) seem to us may be seen from some brief quotations: (1) Judson Webb: " . . . . the abstract machine concept has many of the appropriate kinds of properties for modelling living, reproducing, rule following, self-reflecting, accident-prone, and lucky creatures . . . the a priori logical results relevant to the abstract machine concept, above all Godel's, could not conceivably have turned out any better for the mechanist. " (2) M. L. Dalla Chiara: " . . . modal interpretation (of quantum logic) shows clearly that it possesses a logical meaning which is quite independent of quantum mechanics. " (3) Isaac Levi: (as against Peirce and Popper) " . . . infallibilism is con sistent with corrigibilism, and a view which respects avoidance of error is an important desideratum for science.

The Atoms Of Language
The Atoms Of Language

Author: Mark C Baker

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0786724560

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Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

Language, Thought, and Logic
Language, Thought, and Logic

Author: John Martin Ellis

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Argues that categorization, and not syntax, is the most important aspect of language, suggests that some philosophical problems are caused by an inadequate theory of language, and promotes a fresh approach to linguistic theory.

Logic Made Easy
Logic Made Easy

Author: Deborah J. Bennett

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780141019901

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LOGIC MADE EASY is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Designed with dozens of visual examples, the book guides readers through those hair-raising times when logic is at odds with common sense.

Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1
Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1

Author: L. T. F. Gamut

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780226280844

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Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions. Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic. In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.

The Logic of Language
The Logic of Language

Author: James MacKaye

Publisher:

Published: 1939

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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The pages which follow constitute a treatise on the logic of language, and as such, investigate the conditions of successful communication between men. Still, this book is, and was intended to be, not merely a technical work, but one which should be of general use to students and the educated public. It contains logical theory, but with its applications; it conceives of logic, not as is so fashionable with the moderns, as a quasi-mathematical science, but rather as with the ancients, as an organon, an instrument in the service of clear thought.

Fundamentals of Language
Fundamentals of Language

Author: Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle

Publisher:

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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