The main body of the thesis is divided in three parts, each comprising two chapters. In the first part, I address the notion of scope from the perspective of linguistic economy, by discussing the drawbacks of an economy-based account of scope, and then I put forward an alternative account. In the second part, I apply a similar strategy, this time, with respect to binding. In the third part, I explore the theoretical consequences of the standard economy principles for two theses concerning, respectively, the nature of complex demonstratives and the purported logicality of natural language.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:656149 |
Date | January 2015 |
Creators | Nasta, Andrei |
Publisher | University of East Anglia |
Source Sets | Ethos UK |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Source | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/53452/ |
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