Stefano Predelli presents an original account of the relationships between the central
semantic notions of meaning and truth. Part One begins with the study of phenomena that …

Using data from interviews with high school students, I first adduce evidence that lends
support to Schourup's (1985) claim that the United States English adolescent hedge like is a …

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program
and has been presented as his crowning achievement. It argues, familiarly, that there exists …

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic. Pieter Seuren argues that the
logic of language derives from the lexical meanings of the logical operators. These …

Close inspection of presupposition (= P-) cancelling and other metalinguistic negation data
shows that natural language semantics must be (at least) trivalent, with the values …

This book attempts to marry truth-conditional semantics with cognitive linguistics in the
church of computational neuroscience. To this end, it examines the truth-conditional …

The point of this presentation is to undermine a few generally accepted ideas about logic by
showing that modern standard logic, in the form in which it has crystallised since roughly …

The main argument of this paper is that language, like cognition, is basically intensional, ie
expression of thoughts. The philosophical and logicai consequences of this view are …

Many attempts have been made to define the argument structure of predicates on semantic
grounds. On the whole, such attempts have only been partially successful. Sometimes it …

Various developments in Formal Semantics throughout the last two decades uncovered
evidence that describing the interdigitation of lexical-semantic knowledge and world …