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Lakoff, George. 1970. Linguistics and natural logic. Synthese 22 : 151–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

natural logic | presupposition | speech act | transformational generative grammar

Annotation

It is argued that a generative grammar of a natural language should not only generate grammatical sentences of that language but should also relate them to their logical forms in terms of a 'natural logic', i.e. a logic for natural language, capable of expressing all concepts that can be expressed in natural language. Presuppositions, speech acts, and many other aspects of language are discussed in this context.

Reviewed by

Dahl, Östen. 1972. Review of $Linguistics and natural logic.

Carden, Guy. 1977. Performatives and quantifiers.

Stalker, Douglas F. 1973. Some problems with Lakoff's natural logic.

Reprints

Davidson, Donald and Gilbert H. Harman. 1972. In Davidson, Donald and Gilbert H. Harman, eds. Semantics of natural language. Reidel. pp. 545–665.