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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Explanations of word meaning | |
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| Meaning and reference | |
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| The image theory of meaning | |
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| Meaning and concepts | |
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| Componential analysis | |
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| Meaning and truth | |
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| Tarski's truth definition and sentence meaning | |
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| Truth conditions and word meaning | |
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| Meaning and necessary truth | |
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| Truth conditions and logical form | |
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| Sentence v. statement | |
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| Logical truth v. analytic truth | |
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| Truth conditions and entailment | |
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| Sentence meaning and the non-declaratives | |
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| Meaning and language use | |
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| Bloomfield and behaviorism | |
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| Speech act semantics | |
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| Speech act semantics v. truth-conditional semantics | |
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| Speech act semantics and sentence relations | |
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| Speech act semantics and non-declaratives | |
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| A re-appraisal of the problems | |
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| Performative utterances and truth-value assignment | |
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| A theory of language use: pragmatics | |
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| Summary | |
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| The formalisation of word meaning | |
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| Word, lexical item and the problem of homonymy | |
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| Lexical structure | |
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| Componential analysis and lexical relations | |
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| The relation between lexical items and semantic components | |
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| The formal representation of semantic components | |
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| Componential analysis: the nature of the evidence | |
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| Semantic universals? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sentence meaning | |
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| Deep structure and semantic representations of sentence meaning | |
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| The definition of deep structure | |
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| A projection rule for sentence meaning | |
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| Selectional restrictions: the problem of anomaly | |
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| Negation | |
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| Ambiguity and vagueness | |
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| Four types of vagueness | |
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| An ambiguity test | |
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| Ambiguity and negation | |
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| Quantifiers and problems in testing ambiguity | |
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| The logic of natural language | |
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| Presupposition and entailment defined | |
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| Presupposition and the negation test | |
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| Internal negation v. external negation | |
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| Negation and the ambiguity test revisited | |
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| The three-valued definition of and | |
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| Summary | |
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| Syntax and semantics | |
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| 'Standard' deep structure and semantic representation | |
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| Surface structure and semantic representation | |
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| Deep structure and semantic representation identified: an ambiguity argument | |
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| Phrase structure rules, transformations and semantic representation | |
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| Syntax and semantics: the issue reviewed | |
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| Summary | |
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| The state of the art and prospects for the future | |
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| Linguistic semantics v. logical semantics? | |
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| Meaning postulates | |
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| Outlook for the future | |
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| Semantics | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |