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Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Rules
For the sake of argument, suppose that the code model is right, communication is about transmitting information, and language is merely a code, a...
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Indistinguishability as a constraint on priors
Invoking metaphysical naturalness is “perhaps the most popular proposed solution” to the problem of grue (Hedden in Can J Philos 45:716–743, 2016)....
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Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active...
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Lambek’s Syntactic Calculus and Noncommutative Variants of Linear Logic: Laws and Proof-Nets
This work is devoted to the relations between Lambek’s Syntactic Calculus (LC) and noncommutative variants of Girard’s Linear Logic; in particular...
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Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics
Functional reductionism characterises inter-theoretic reduction as the recovery of the upper-level behaviour described by the reduced theory in terms...
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Relativized Adjacency
For each class in the piecewise-local subregular hierarchy, a relativized (tier-based) variant is defined. Algebraic as well as automata-, language-,...
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Pure Quotation in Linguistic Context
A common framing has it that any adequate treatment of quotation has to abandon one of the following three principles: (i) The quoted expression is a...
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Two Versions of Meaning Failure: A Contributing Essay to the Explanation of the Split Between Analytical and Phenomenological Continental philosophy
Theories of meaning developed within the analytic tradition, starting with Gottlob Frege, and within continental philosophy, starting with Husserl,...
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A Syntax for the Martial Intercorporeality: The Case of Aikido and Kenpo
This article provides arguments to show that there is a form of syntax specific to the bodily movements of certain martial arts. This syntax of...
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Light Verbs and the Syntactic Configurations of se
This paper offers a novel analysis of the Spanish light verbs poner(se) ‘to become’ and quedar(se) ‘to become/stay’ in combination with adjectives....
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Words and Roots – Polysemy and Allosemy – Communication and Language
Most substantive (content-bearing) words are polysemous, but polysemy is cross-categorial; for instance, the lexical forms ‘stone’ and ‘front’ are...
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What is PA + con(PA) about, and where?
Justin Clarke-Doane offers what purports to be a stand-alone argument, relying on Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, that if we hold that...
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Embedding HTLCG into \(\hbox {LCG}_\phi \)
A wide array of syntactic phenomena can be categorized as being either direction- sensitive (e.g. coordination) or direction- insensitive ...
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On the unreasonable reliability of mathematical inference
In (Avigad,
2020 ), Jeremy Avigad makes a novel and insightful argument, which he presents as part of a defence of the ‘Standard View’ about the... -
Notational Variants and Cognition: The Case of Dependency Grammar
In recent years, dependency grammars have established themselves as valuable tools in theoretical and computational linguistics. To many linguists,...
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The role of syntactic representations in set theory
In this paper, we explore the role of syntactic representations in set theory. We highlight a common inferential scheme in set theory, which we call...
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Possible words: generativity, instantiation, and individuation
Words come into existence through a number of distinct processes including naming, semantic shifts, morphological productivity, and compounding. In...