Indices and identity. - FIENGO, ROBERT. MAY, ROBERT.
KORTE INHOUD
Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different? 'Indices and identity' focuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on the role of indices in characterizing syntactic and semantic identity of expressions. Fiengo and May develop two main themes within the theory of anaphora. The first pertains to the meaning of coindexing and non-coindexing - the correspondence between indexical relations among expressions and the valuation relation that holds among them - while the second is the development of Dependency Theory, the theory of the relations of occurrences of indices. The novelty of Fiengo and May's approach lies with their characterization of indexical dependencies and the conditions under which structures manifest the same or different dependency. In particular, 'Indices and identity' emphasizes issues raised by strict and sloppy identity in ellipsis, exploring what Fiengo and May call 'the eliminative puzzles of ellipsis'. The significance of th...
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1994Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1994.316 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 026206166XISBN-13: 9780262061667Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Orig. cloth (hardcover) xviii,316 pp.; 24 cm. - "Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ; 24" Text in English - (no d.j., cloth sl. (sun)faded, previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise very good. 750 [Auteur: FIENGO, ROBERT. MAY, ROBERT.] [Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: Indices and identity.]
