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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

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Title: Plural Predication
Written By: Thomas McKay
URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199278145
Description:

Plural predication is a pervasive part of ordinary language. We can say that some people are fifty in number, are surrounding a building, come from many countries, and are classmates. These predicates can be true of some people without being true of any one of them; they are non-distributive predications. However, the apparatus of modern logic does not allow a place for them. Thomas McKay here explores the enrichment of logic with non-distributive plural predication and quantification. His book will be of great interest to philosophers of language, linguists, metaphysicians, and logicians.

Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 0199278148
ISBN-13: 9780199278145
Pages: 272
Prices: U.K. £ 40.00