Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Situation Semantics
- 3: The Definite Article
- 4: Presupposition
- 5: Referential and Attributive
- 6: Anaphora
- 7: Modality Existence Entailments
- 8: Existence Entailments
- 9: Incompleteness
- 10: Pronouns
- 11: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index