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Publication details [#5881]

Lakoff, George. 1971. The role of deduction in grammar. In Fillmore, Charles J. and D. Terence Langendoen, eds. Studies in linguistic semantics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 62–70.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

deduction | grammaticality | presupposition

Annotation

The main point of the paper is that the general principles governing the grammaticality of certain sentences relative to certain presuppositions, can only be stated in terms of deductions from those presuppositions.

Reprints

Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck. 1973. In Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck, eds. Präsuppositionen in Philosophie und Linguistik. Athenäum Verlag. pp. 355–364.