In generative grammar and related approaches, the logical form (LF) of a linguistic expression is the variant of its syntactic structure which undergoes...
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logic, the logical form of a statement is a precisely specified semantic version of that statement in a formal system. Informally, the logical form attempts...
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Mass: MIT Press. Stanley, Jason (30 August 2000). "Context and Logical Form". Linguistics and Philosophy. 23 (4): 391–434. doi:10.1023/A:1005599312747....
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relationships Logical form, the abstract form of a set of sentences in logic Logical form (linguistics), a level of syntactic representation Logical framework...
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Syntactic movement (redirect from Trace (linguistics))
Discontinuity Extraposition Gapping Inversion Logical form (linguistics) Move alpha PRO (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) Scope (formal semantics) Scrambling...
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Syntax (redirect from Syntax (linguistics))
In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/ SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central...
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formal grammars and first-order logical expressions. Formal linguistics also forms the basis of computational linguistics. Since the 1980s, the term is...
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mathematics and linguistics, and ( ∧ {\displaystyle \wedge } ) is the truth-functional operator of conjunction or logical conjunction. The logical connective...
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Philosophy of language (redirect from History of the philosophy of linguistics)
Davidson, Putnam, and Searle. Attempts to revive logical formal semantics as a basis of linguistics followed, e.g., the Montague grammar. Despite resistance...
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Formal semantics (natural language) (redirect from Type-logical semantics)
surface form can be semantically ambiguous between different scope construals. Some theories of scope posit a level of syntactic structure called logical form...
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Antecedent-contained deletion (category Linguistics)
verb read. Verb phrase ellipsis Ellipsis (linguistics) Logical form (linguistics) Constituent (linguistics) Pseudogapping Phrase structure grammar Dependency...
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Logical grammar or rational grammar is a term used in the history and philosophy of linguistics to refer to certain linguistic and grammatical theories...
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Intension (section Intensional statement form)
several fields of study that treat the use of signs—for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language—an...
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Proposition (redirect from Logical proposition)
difficult for non-mentalist views of propositions, such as those of the logical positivists and Russell described above, and Gottlob Frege's view that...
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Indicative conditional (category Logical connectives)
and linguistics. Open questions include which logical operation indicatives denote, how such denotations could be composed from their grammatical form, and...
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Formal system (redirect from Logical calculus)
satisfies a well-formed formula. A structure that satisfies all the axioms of the formal system is known as a model of the logical system. A logical system is:...
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optimality theory. Formal linguistics is the branch of linguistics which uses formal languages, formal grammars and first-order logical expressions for the...
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more languages. The fundamental principle of humanistic linguistics, especially rational and logical grammar, is that language is an invention created by...
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Formalism (linguistics) – the theory of language as a formal system with mathematical-logical rules and a formal grammar Functional linguistics – language...
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In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional...
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book titled A Course in Modern Linguistics. Chomsky first referred to these Hockettian concepts in his 1962 paper The Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory (later...
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Scope (formal semantics) (category Linguistics)
Continuation-passing style De dicto and de re Generalized quantifier Logical form (linguistics) Quantifier (linguistics) Type shifter Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998)...
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The economy principle in linguistics, also known as linguistic economy, is a functional explanation of linguistic form. It suggests that the organization...
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Peter Ludlow (category Philosophers of linguistics)
Generative Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2011. A version of this account can be found in Ludlow's paper "Interpreted Logical Forms, Belief Attribution...
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Engineered language (redirect from Logical languages)
least three subcategories, philosophical languages (or ideal languages), logical languages (sometimes abbreviated as loglangs), and experimental languages...
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especially in his earlier works). Gustav Bergmann also developed a form of logical atomism that focused on an ideal phenomenalistic language, particularly...
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Syntax (logic) (redirect from Logical syntax)
of marks which form a particular pattern. Symbols of a formal language need not be symbols of anything. For instance there are logical constants which...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (redirect from Logical-Philosophical Treatise)
elements in logical space, then logical space itself cannot be depicted since it is itself not an arrangement of anything; rather logical form is a feature...
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Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to linguistics, among functional linguistics, that considers language as a social semiotic system...
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In linguistics, a feature of a word or phrase is said to be covert if there is no surface evidence of its existence within that word or phrase. For example...
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