Paradigms for language theory and other essays

Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers | 4

Springer

1998

Abstract

Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.

Cited authors

Frege Gottlob

Russell Bertrand