Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic.
Nietzsche's metaphor of the spider that spins its cobweb expresses his critique of the metaphysical use of language - but it also suggests that "e;we, spiders"e;, are able to spin different, life-affirming, healthier, non-metaphysical cobwebs.
Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language.
Die Wittgenstein-Rezeption hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten, wohl vor allem aufgrund Kripkes einflussreichem Buch Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, auf den Begriff der Regel und das Problem des Regelfolgens konzentriert.
This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal).
Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular.
Papers from more than three decades reflect the development of thinking over the dialogical framework that shapes verbal expression of comprehending experience and that has to be exhibited in responsible argumentations.
The theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics.
Sowohl die Alltags- als auch die Wissenschaftssprache sind reich an Dispositionsausdrucken wie loslich"e;, elastisch"e;, zuverlassig"e; und humorvoll"e;.
This book is a detailed high-quality descriptive grammar of the endangered Cavinena language (less than 1200 speakers), spoken in the Amazonian rainforest of Lowland Bolivia, an area where the indigenous languages are virtually unknown.
