rdf-syntax-grammar
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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Conjoining meanings
    sub title: semantics without truth values
  name:
    name part: Pietroski, Paul M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 393 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M. Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. Children acquire meaningful lexical items that can be combined, in certain ways, to form meaningful complex expressions. This raises questions about what meanings are, how they can be combined, and what kinds of meanings lexical items can have. According to Pietroski, meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions. He argues that meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort. More specifically, phrasal meanings are instructions for how to build monadic concepts (a.k.a. mental predicates) that are massively conjunctive, while lexical meanings are instructions for how to fetch concepts that are monadic or dyadic. This allows for polysemy, since a lexical item can be linked to an address that is shared by a family of fetchable concepts. But the posited combinatorial operations are limited and limiting. They impose severe restrictions on which concepts can be fetched for purposes of semantic composition. Correspondingly, Pietroski argues that in lexicalization, available representations are often used to introduce concepts that can be combined via the relevant operations.
  note: Paul M. Pietroski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Spracherwerb
  subject:
    topic: Semantik
  subject:
    topic: Bedeutung
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics (Philosophy)
  classification: B105.M4 P54 2018
  classification: 121.68
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Conjoining meanings
    name:
      name part: Pietroski, Paul M.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018
    identifier: (OCoLC)1031374197
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    title info:
      title: Context and content
  identifier: 0198812728
  identifier: 9780198812722
  identifier: 2017956394
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170706
    record change date: 20181023093222.0
    record identifier: in00003996971
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng