Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 429-451 (23 pages) Recently several philosophers of science have proposed what has come to be known as the semantic account of ...

Language semantics and syntax are crucial components of linguistics that explore how meaning is constructed and how sentences are structured. Recent research in this field has focused on various ...

As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use.

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

Benjamin Bruening, Ph.D., is a professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 2001 from the Massachusetts ...

I argue for a novel model of feature valuation in the CI interface and explore under what circumstances a syntactic feature is semantically interpretable. As the groundwork for the investigation, I ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...