Quotation: Compositionality and Innocence without Demonstration

Compositionality, innocence and the interpretation of NPs

Neale (1999) outlines a theory of meaning which he claims can account for a range of problematic semantic data while respecting two intuitively plausible constraints on semantic theory: compositionality and semantic innocence. In this paper I argue that Neale’s theory, hindered as it is by its underlying conception of the relation between language and thought, fails to satisfy the criteria it s...

Pure Quotation, Compositionality, and the Semantics of Linguistic Context

This is a submitted version of a paper published in Linguistics and Philosophy. Citation for the published paper: Pagin, P., Westerståhl, D. (2011) "Pure Quotation and General Compositionality" Linguistics and Philosophy URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-011-9083-8 Access to the published version may require subscription. Permanent link to this version: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:...

The Regression Point Displacement Design for Evaluating Community-Based Pilot Programs and Demonstration Projects

(in preparation) This is a rough draft that probably does not deserve quotation. We thought that early dissemination among friends would enhance the final product and help detect the more serious errors and omissions. Comments are appreciated.

A Study of Frege’s Influence on A. J. Ayer’s Theory of Emotivism

No doubt, Gottlob Frege and A. J. Ayer are considered to be among the most prominent contemporary philosophers. Insofar as one of them has revolutionized the linguistic domain while the other has influenced the domain of ethics in a diametrical fashion. Ayer’s theory of emotivism is regarded as one of the most controversial moral theories in the past century. We believe that Frege, as a linguis...

Preliminary – Not for Quotation without permission Public Sector Governance and the Finance Sector