Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.
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1. The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry . - 2. No Scope for Scope? . - 3. (with Gabriel Sandu) Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon . - 4. `Is , Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity . - 5. Logical Form and Linguistic Theory . - 6. On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics . - 7. Paradigms for Language Theory . - 8. (with Gabriel Sandu) The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference . - 9. Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and `Small Worlds . - 10. Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories . - 11. (with Gabriel Sandu) Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning .
