num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
titlecomplete: Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays (Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, 4)
publisher: Springer