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Subject: Linguistics Collections: Philosophy, Department of

  • Meaning and Ontology

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    2012

    Pelletier, Francis J., Lepore, Ernest

    This paper is an investigation into the role of linguistics in philosophical theorizing. In particular, we will show how linguistic evidence can be adduced in support of an event approach to action verbs and their adverbial modifiers: if we increase the adicity of verbs, if we allow there to be...

  • Or

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    1977

    Pelletier, Francis J.

    It is an extremely popular view among logicians and some linguists (McCawley, Hurford) that there are two distinct or's in English - an \"inclusive\" and an \"exclusive\". It seems equally popular among lexicographers, experts on proper usage, and some linguists (R. Lakoff) that there is only...

  • The Generative Power of Rule Orderings in Formal Grammars

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    1980

    Pelletier, Francis J.

    One way of 'restricting linguistic theory' is the L-view: place sufficient restrictions on the allowable rules of grammars so as to reduce their generative power. Another way is the G-view: disallow certain grammars, regardless of whether this results in a reduction of generative capacity. The...

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