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A View of Language

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A View of Language

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This book provides a synopsis of Seuren's work in linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, and creole linguistics over the past three decades.

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A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

Thinking, Reality, and Language

By: Pieter A.M. Seuren

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A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

Thinking, Reality, and Language

By: Pieter A.M. Seuren

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter. In particular, it is unfit for linguistics and cognitive science, where it is ultimately self-destructive, since it fails to account for causality, while the mind, the primary object of research of the human sciences, cannot be understood unless considered to be an autonomous causal force. Author Pieter Albertus Maria Seuren, who died shortly after this manuscript was finished and after a remarkable career, reviews the history of this issue since the seventeenth century. He focuses on Descartes, Leibniz, British Empiricism and Kant, arguing that neither cognition nor language can be adequately accounted for unless the mind is given its full due. This implies that a distinction must be made—following Alexius Meinong, but against Russell and Quine—between actual and virtual reality. The latter is a product of the causally active mind and a necessary ingredient for the setting up of mental models, without which neither cognition nor language can function. Mental models are coherent sets of propositions, and can be wholly or partially true or false. Positivism rules out mental models, blocking any serious semantics and thereby reducing both language and cognition to caricatures of themselves. Seuren presents a causal theory of meaning, linking up language with cognition and solving the old question of what meaning actually amounts to. Key Features: Provides a fundamental reassessment of the methodology of the humanities Makes a distinctive contribution to the conceptual foundations of linguistics and philosophy of mind Explores the philosophical and historical origins of central developments in the human sciences in the past 100 years Offers a new approach to ontology and epistemology in the scientific study of the creative human mind and its products.

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1000880176

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From Whorf to Montague

Explorations in the Theory of Language

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Explorations in the Theory of Language

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This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational power may be attributed to the human mind. The book opens with chapters on the social reality of language, the ancient question of the primacy of language or thought, and the relation between universal and language-specific features. Professor Seuren then considers links between language, logic, and mathematics: he suggests the facts of language require a theory with abstract principles, and that grammars should be seen as mediating between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances. He argues that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning. He concludes by considering how a fundamental rephrasing of the basic principles of logic could reconnect it with cognition and language and involve a principled rejection of possible-world semantics.

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OUP Oxford

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0191504734

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Saussure and Sechehaye

Myth and Genius : a Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Myth and Genius : a Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

Who was Ferdinand de Saussure? -- The cours: a critical look -- Charles-Albert Sechehaye -- Sechehaye and the great subject-predicate debate -- Structuralism, rationalism and romanticism in psychology and linguistics

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A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

Thinking, Reality, and Language

By: Pieter A.M. Seuren

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A View of Language

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A View of Language

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This book provides a synopsis of Seuren's work in linguistic theory, syntax, semantics, and creole linguistics over the past three decades.

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Language in Cognition

Language From Within Volume I

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Language in Cognition

Language From Within Volume I

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

In this book, Pieter Seuren presents a radically new perspective on the study of linguistic meaning, the place of logic in language and the embedding of language in cognition. Throughout his ambitious enterprise, he maintains a constant dialogue with established views, reflecting on their development from Ancient Greece to the present.

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From Whorf to Montague

Explorations in the Theory of Language

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Explorations in the Theory of Language

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This book explores the relations between language, the world, and the mind. Pieter Seuren argues that language requires a theory with abstract principles and that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning but mediate between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances.

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0199682194

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Chomsky's Minimalism

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Chomsky's Minimalism

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite being fundamentally misguided, according to distinguished linguist and philosopher of language Pieter Seuren. Seuren's accessible and spirited attack argues that the Minimalist Program is deeply flawed. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the 1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder and unfairly suppressed. Seuren maintains that this suppression, and the cult surrounding Chomsky and Minimalism more generally, has done great damage to linguistics by impairing open discussion of empirical issues and excluding valid alternatives.

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0195173066

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The Logic of Language

Language From Within Volume II

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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The Logic of Language

Language From Within Volume II

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

This book opens a new perspective on logic. After analyzing the functional adequacy of natural predicate logic and standard modern logic for natural linguistic interaction, the author develops a general theory of discourse-bound interpretation, covering such topics as discourse incrementation, anaphora, presupposition and topic-comment structure.

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0199559481

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Operators and Nucleus

A Contribution to the Theory of Grammar

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Operators and Nucleus

A Contribution to the Theory of Grammar

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

Dr Seuren's study deals with the problem of presenting an adequate model of grammatical description. The model he proposes conforms in its main outlines to the transformational generative grammar established by Chomsky, but differs in important respects. These mainly affect that part of Chomsky's syntactic component known as the 'base', which generates basic or 'deep' structures. In the model of the base proposed here two main constituents are distinguished for every deep structure representation of a sentence, vis-a-vis the operators and the nucleus. The deep structure of a sentence is thus seen to be very similar to the logical structure of a proposition. The arguments given in support of this analysis are based on mainly on considerations of simplicity and semantic adequacy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521148200

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Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius

A Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language

By: Pieter Seuren

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Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius

A Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language

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In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language.

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BRILL

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9004378154

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Semantic Syntax

Second Revised Edition

By: Pieter Seuren

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Semantic Syntax

Second Revised Edition

By: Pieter Seuren

This book is the first and so far only formally precise machinery converting well-motivated semantic sentence representations into actual sentences of English, French, German and Dutch. It focuses on the auxiliary and complementation systems of the languages concerned.

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9004354298

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Chomsky's Minimalism

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Operators and Nucleus

A Contribution to the Theory of Grammar

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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A Contribution to the Theory of Grammar

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A View of Language

A View of Language

A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

From Whorf to Montague

From Whorf to Montague

Saussure and Sechehaye

Saussure and Sechehaye

A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind

A View of Language

A View of Language

Language in Cognition

Language in Cognition

From Whorf to Montague

From Whorf to Montague

Chomsky's Minimalism

Chomsky's Minimalism

The Logic of Language

The Logic of Language

Operators and Nucleus

Operators and Nucleus

Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius

Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius

Semantic Syntax

Semantic Syntax

Chomsky's Minimalism

Chomsky's Minimalism

Operators and Nucleus

Operators and Nucleus

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