Words and thoughts : subsentences, ellipsis, and the philosophy of language /
Stainton, Robert.
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.
The appearances and some background -- Introduction : the appearances, and what they might mean -- Further background issues -- The genuineness issue -- Not a full-fledged speech act? -- Extra-grammatical maneuvers -- Semantic ellipsis -- Syntactic ellipsis -- A divide-and-conquer strategy -- A positive representational-pragmatic view -- Implications -- Language : thought relations -- Sentence primacy -- Sentences, assertion, and the semantics-pragmatics boundary.
Language and languages
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general