Download or read book Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays written by Jaakko Hintikka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.