Indices and Identity

Name: Indices and Identity
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ISBN: 9780262560764

ISBN-10: 0262560763

ISBN-13: 9780262560764

Edition: 1994

Authors: Robert Fiengo, Robert May

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Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different? Indices and Identityfocuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on the role of indices in characterizing syntactic and semantic identity of expressions. Fiengo and May develop two main themes within the theory of anaphora. The first pertains to the meaning of coindexing and non-coindexing -- the correspondence between indexical relations among expressions and the valuation relation that holds among them -- while the second is the development of Dependency Theory, the theory of the relations of occurrences of indices. The novelty of Fiengo and May's approach lies with their…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/6/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Robert Fiengo is Professor of Linguistics at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Robert May is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Fiengo and May are the authors of Indices and Identity (MIT Press, 1994).



Series Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Reference, Coreference, Not-Coreference



Dependency Theory



Identity of Dependencies



Eliminative Puzzles of Ellipsis



On Reconstruction



Logical Form and Reconstruction


References


Index