From Whorf to Montague: Explorations in the Theory of Language
Author(s): Pieter A. M. Seuren (Author)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Print length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0199682194
ISBN-13: 9780199682195
Book Description
This book explores the relations between language, the world, and the mind. Pieter Seuren argues that language requires a theory with abstract principles and that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning but mediate between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances.
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From the Publisher
Pieter A. M. Seuren, Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Pieter Seuren has been a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen since 1999 when he retired as Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His books include
Discourse Semantics and Semantic Syntax (Blackwell 1985 and 1996) and A View of Language (OUP 2001), Language in Cognition, and The Logic of Language (OUP, 2001, 2009, and 2010).
About the Author
Pieter A. M. Seuren, Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Pieter Seuren has been a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen since 1999 when he retired as Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His books include
Discourse Semantics and Semantic Syntax (Blackwell 1985 and 1996) and A View of Language (OUP 2001), Language in Cognition, and The Logic of Language (OUP, 2001, 2009, and 2010).
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