Varieties of linguistic economy : essays on scope and binding
The main body of the thesis is divided in three parts, each comprising two chapters. In the first part, I address the notion of scope from the perspective of linguistic economy, by discussing the drawbacks of an economy-based account of scope, and then I put forward an alternative account. In the se...
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ndltd-bl.uk-oai-ethos.bl.uk-6561492017-04-20T03:31:21ZVarieties of linguistic economy : essays on scope and bindingNasta, Andrei2015The main body of the thesis is divided in three parts, each comprising two chapters. In the first part, I address the notion of scope from the perspective of linguistic economy, by discussing the drawbacks of an economy-based account of scope, and then I put forward an alternative account. In the second part, I apply a similar strategy, this time, with respect to binding. In the third part, I explore the theoretical consequences of the standard economy principles for two theses concerning, respectively, the nature of complex demonstratives and the purported logicality of natural language.410.1University of East Angliahttp://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.656149https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/53452/Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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The main body of the thesis is divided in three parts, each comprising two chapters. In the first part, I address the notion of scope from the perspective of linguistic economy, by discussing the drawbacks of an economy-based account of scope, and then I put forward an alternative account. In the second part, I apply a similar strategy, this time, with respect to binding. In the third part, I explore the theoretical consequences of the standard economy principles for two theses concerning, respectively, the nature of complex demonstratives and the purported logicality of natural language. |
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