Words and the Grammar of Context (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)

Paul Kay

ISBN 10: 1881526178 / ISBN 13: 9781881526179

Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1997

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Type: Book N.B. Small plain label to inside front cover. Bottom edge of front cover bumped. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 054463

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Titel: Words and the Grammar of Context (Center for...

Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications

Erscheinungsdatum: 1997

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No d/j as Published

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The more or less currently accepted views of semantic compositionality, Gricean effects and indexicality are necessary, but not sufficient, to bridge the gap between the conventional significations of linguistic objects and the interpretations that sentences receive in contexts. Kay's radical contribution is his claim that the kind of theory of 'indexicality' required by the facts must be able to avail itself of the recursive (in Chomsky's sense 'creative') aspect of language.

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Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.