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Philosophy of Linguistics Handbook of the Philosophy of Science General Editors Dov M. Gabbay Paul Thagard John Woods Handbook of Philosophy of Science Volume 14 Philosophy of Linguistics Edited by Ruth Kempson King 's College London, UK Tim Fernando Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Nicholas Asher CNRS Laboratoire IRIT, Universit Paul Sabatier, France AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO North Holland is an imprint of Elsevier North Holland is an imprint of Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands First edition 2012 Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. 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Within particular sciences, special concerns arise about what exists and how it can be known, for example in physics about the nature of space and time, and in psychology about the nature of consciousness. Hence the philosophy of science is an essential part of the scientific investigation of the world. In recent decades, philosophy of science has become an increasingly central part of philosophy in general. Although there are still philosophers who think that theories of knowledge and reality can be developed by pure reflection, much current philosophical work finds it necessary and valuable to take into account relevant scientific findings. For example, the philosophy of mind is now closely tied to empirical psychology, and political theory often intersects with economics. Thus philosophy of science provides a valuable bridge between philosophical and scientific inquiry. More and more, the philosophy of science concerns itself not just with general issuesaboutthenatureandvalidityofscience,butespeciallywithparticularissues that arise in specific sciences. Accordingly, we have organized this Handbook into many volumes reflecting the full range of current research in the philosophy of science. We invited volume editors who are fully involved in the specific sciences, and are delighted that they have solicited contributions by scientifically-informed philosophers and (in a few cases) philosophically-informed scientists. The result is the most comprehensive review ever provided of the philosophy of science. Here are the volumes in the Handbook: Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues, edited by Theo Kuipers. Philosophy of Physics, edited by Jeremy Butterfield and John Earman. PhilosophyofBiology,editedbyMohanMatthenandChristopherStephens. Philosophy of Mathematics, edited by Andrew Irvine. Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dale Jacquette. Philosophy of Chemistry, edited by Andrea Woody, Robin Hendry and Paul Needham. vi DovGabbay,PaulThagard,andJohnWoods PhilosophyofStatistics,editedbyPrasantaS.BandyopadhyayandMalcolm Forster. Philosophy of Information, edited by Pieter Adriaans and Johan van Benthem. Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, edited by Anthonie Meijers. Philosophy of Complex Systems, edited by Cliff Hooker. PhilosophyofEcology,editedbyBrysonBrown,KentA.PeacockandKevin deLaplante. Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, edited by Paul Thagard. Philosophy of Economics, edited by Uskali Ma¨ki. Philosophy of Linguistics, edited by Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando and Nicholas Asher. Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, edited by Stephen Turner and Mark Risjord. Philosophy of Medicine, edited by Fred Gifford. Detailsaboutthecontentsandpublishingscheduleofthevolumescanbefoundat http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.editors/BS HPHS/description# description Asgeneraleditors,weareextremelygratefultothevolumeeditorsforarranging such a distinguished array of contributors and for managing their contributions. Production of these volumes has been a huge enterprise, and our warmest thanks go to Jane Spurr and Carol Woods for putting them together. Thanks also to Lauren Schultz and Derek Coleman at Elsevier for their support and direction. CONTENTS General Preface vii Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John Woods List of Contributors xi Editorial Preface xiii Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando, and Nicholas Asher Linguistics and Philosophy 1 Jaroslav Peregrin Structure 33 Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka Logical Grammar 63 Glyn Morrill Minimalism 93 Wolfram Hinzen Computational Linguistics 143 Gerald Penn The Metaphysics of Natural Language(s) 175 Emmon Bach and Wynn Chao Meaning and Use 197 Robert van Rooij Context in Content Composition 229 Nicholas Asher Type Theory and Semantics in Flux 271 Robin Cooper viii Contents Language, Linguistics and Cognition 325 Giosuè Baggio, Michiel van Lambalgen and Peter Hagoort Representationalism and Linguistic Knowledge 357 Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Daniel Wedgwood Philosophy of Phonology 403 Philip Carr Computational Learning Theory and Language Acquisition 445 Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin Linguistics from an Evolutionary Point of View 477 James R. Hurford Linguistics and Gender Studies 503 Sally McConnell-Ginet Anthropological Linguistics 531 William O. Beeman Index 553 CONTRIBUTORS Nicholas Asher CNRS, IRIT, Universit´e Paul Sabatier, France. [email protected] Emmon Bach University of Massachusetts, USA, and SOAS, UK [email protected] Giosu`e Baggio SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Triest, Italy. [email protected] William O. Beeman University of Minnesota, USA. [email protected] Ronnie Cann University of Edinburgh, UK. [email protected] Philip Carr Universit´e Paul Val´ery, France. [email protected] Wynn Chao SOAS, UK. [email protected] Alexander Clark Royal Holloway University of London, UK. [email protected] Robin Cooper Gothenberg University, Sweden. [email protected] Tim Fernando Trinity College Dublin, Eire. [email protected] Peter Hagoort Radboud Univeristy of Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands. [email protected]
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