Approaches to natural language

Edited by
Jaakko Hintikka, Julius Moravcsik, Patrick Suppes

pp. 1-29

in: Rod Bertolet, What is said, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Abstract

There are various ways of studying human language. I want to contrast two such ways, and indicate which I shall adopt in what follows. Our point of departure will be some remarks which philosophers have made about semantics, but let me first offer a preliminary sketch of the two rather general ways in which we might conceive the study of natural language.