6 results found in 4 ms.
Page 1 of 1
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course is an introduction to the philosophy of language. It examines different views on the nature of meaning, truth and reference, with special focus on the problem of understanding how linguistic communication works.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- nature of meaning
- reference
- truth
- and their relationships
- relationships between language and logic
- language and knowledge
- language and reality
- language and acts performed through its use
- logic
- linguistics
- language
- philosophy
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
An intensive seminar on the foundations of analytic philosophy for first-year graduate students. A large selection of classic texts, from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, is covered in this course.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- frege
- russell
- wittgenstein
- moore
- ayer
- tarski
- austin
- analytic philosophy
- truth
- language
- logic
- logical positivism
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
The objective of the graduate-level course is to give people a sense of what "accounting for vagueness" is all about, why it's hard, and why it's important. This will involve surveying some prominent accounts of vagueness.
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- vagueness
- sorites paradox
- truth
- supervaluationism
- epistemicism
- contextualism
- nihilism
- relativism
- logical revisionism
- interdeterminacy
- language
- inexact knowledge
- logic
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course will acquaint you with some of the important results and ideas of the last half - century of research in syntax. We will explore a large number of issues and a large amount of data so that you can learn something of what this field is all about. From time to time, we will discuss related work in language acquisition and processi
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- linguistics
- syntax
- language
- structure
- theory
- language structure
- philosophy
- cognitive psychology
- languages
- syntactic theory
- language acquisition
- processing
- principles and parameters syntax
- theoretical linguistics
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course is a detailed examination of the grammar of Japanese and its structure which is significantly different from English, with special emphasis on problems of interest in the study of linguistic universals. Data from a broad group of languages is studied for comparison with Japanese. This course assumes familiarity with linguistic t
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- linguistics
- linguistic theory
- japanese
- language
- theoretical linguistics
- a-positions
- a-chains
- a'-positions
- a'-chains
- double-object construction
- possessor raising
- locational verbs
- binding
- external argument
- causative construction
- reconstruction
- word-order permutation
More OCW like this |
|
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
Share in:
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of modeling phonology, with an empirical focus on modeling the discovery of static phonotactics, the discovery of alternations, learning in the midst of variation and exceptions, and the discovery of gradient patterns. This course is also intended to provide hands-on experience with
Author(s):
Tag(s):
- linguistics and philosophy
- phonology
- language
- phonological learning
- phonotactics
- modeling
- grammar
- perl
- learning
- alternations
- gradient patterns
- linguistics
6 results found.
Page 1 of 1