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A rich source of new insights and potential research agendas for the philosophy of linguistics

Table of Contents

1. Linguistics and Philosophy (Jaroslav Peregrin) 2. Structure (Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka) 3. Logical Grammar (Glyn Morrill) 5. Minimalism (Wolfram Hinzen) 6. Computational Linguistics (Gerald Penn) 7. The Metaphyiscs of Natural Language(s) (Emmon Bach and Wynn Chao) 8. Meaning and Use (Robert van Rooij) 9. Context in Content Composition (Nicholas Asher) 10. Type Theory and Semantics in Flux (Robin Cooper) 11. Language, Linguistics and Cognition (Giosuè Baggio, Michiel van Lambalgen and Peter Hagoort) 12. Representationalsim and Linguistic Knowledge (Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Daniel Wedgwood) 13. Philosophy of Phonology (Philip Carr) 14. Computational Learning Theory and Language Acquisition (Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin) 15. Linguistics from an Evolutionary Point of View (James R. Hurford) 16. Linguistics and Gender Studies (Sally McConnell-Ginet) 17. Anthropological Linguistics (William O. Beeman)

About the Author

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.