主页1Pm项目介绍|统计|学科分类|临时用户登录|论文分粪浏览帮助 出版与 AA3043041 论文名称 Knowledge of word-meaning 作者 Johnson. Kent eric. Ph. D Rutgers The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick 日期 2001 指导老师 Lepore, Ernest 学科 Philosophy: Language, Linguistics 0422:0290 12969 KB image- only PDF点击此处下载PDF文件 摘要 This thesis has two interconnected themes. First and foremost, it is a study of the philosophical and cognitive aspects of word-meaning. An examination of the differing grammatical behavior of words of the same general type (e. g, transit ive verbs) shows that much structure in our language comes from aspects of word-meaning. Using some tools from theoretical linguistics, we can uncover numerous semantic concepts that interact with (other) grammatical properties of language. In linguistics these concepts are often only acknowledged for their purely grammatical uses, and in philosophy they have not yet been a focus of detailed study. By attending to their and we can supply evidence for many foundational thesea pht osophical claims language and mind. The second theme concerns the appropriate methodology of linguistics. I defend a linguistic methodology centered around four features. First, a theory of this sort is a modified version of the Davidsonian project. The davidsonian position is justified on very general grounds. However, the project is also Chomskian in that it is a part of a theory of the mind. Secondly, there are strict conditions on importing semantic structure into the meaning of an expression. In general, there are