Abstract: . Starting from any language provided with sentence meanings and a grammar, and using the principle that the meaning of a phrase is what it contributes to the meanings of sentences containing it, we derive a semantics for the whole language. The semantics is necessarily compositional and carries a structure of semantic categories. With a further assumption on the grammatical heads of phrases, we can assume that the meanings of head words are functions from meanings to meanings, in the Frege style. The paper sketches these results and considers how far the semantics of Husserl, Frege and Tarski can be seen as examples of this pattern.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-03-29
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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