VOLUME 7 • 2008
NARRATIVITY, EXPRESSION, AND ARTIFICE
ABSTRACT. Link’s paper concerns the use of dance in the Act 3 finale of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, starting from the problem articulated by Alan Tyson in his Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores. According to Waeber, in the early nineteenth century, the piano étude was conceived as an outgrowth..
PITCH, RHYTHM, AND INSTRUMENTAL COLOR (II)
ABSTRACT. Antioh Cantemir’s substantial effort is his Petrida, an unfinished epic glorifying the Emperor. His language seems antiquated to the modern reader: he stuck to the gallic system of rhyming, which was subsequently discarded. Antioh Cantemir’s poems are generally satires in the manner of Juv..
GOD AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
ABSTRACT. James says that a genuine first-hand religious experience is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. Küng points out that God is not a supramundane being above the clouds, in the physical heaven, and is not an extramundane being, beyond the..
MONTAGUE, THE TRUTH-CONDITIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF SEMANTICS, AND THE ALGEBRAIC INTERPRETATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPOSITIONALITY
ABSTRACT. Partee says that a grammar should be able to be cast in the following form: the syntax is an algebra, the semantics is an algebra, and there is a homomorphism mapping elements of the syntactic algebra onto elements of the semantic algebra. The Montague grammar is based on formal logic (esp..
GRAMMATICAL FORMALISM AND CONSTRAINT SYSTEMS
ABSTRACT. As Kempen puts it, grammar instruction cannot restrict itself to conveying grammatical insights to the students. Perrier builds the grammar with the XMG tool, which allows grammars to be written with a high level of abstraction in a modular setting and to be compiled into low level grammar..
WORD ORDER AND CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE IN FRENCH GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT. Blache et al. present the Property Grammars formalism in which linguistic information corresponds to different kinds of constraints. Huffman offers an analysis of the French clitic object pronouns lui and le in the radically functional Columbia school framework, contrasting this framework ..
THE FRENCH ADMINISTRATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
ABSTRACT. Orange contends that the French territorial architecture is quite original for several reasons. As Anderson puts it, the French administrative language of the EU has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the 20th century. Lavrijssen and de Visser write that nat..
ON THE CATEGORIES OF EXPLANATION IN PROCESS AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. Why return to Whitehead today? What reasons could there be for disinterring a philosophy many judge to have been well buried even in its day, overtaken by a wave of powerful rejections of all forms of speculative metaphysics? The answer is that Whitehead offers – and knew he offered – crit..
TIME AND CHANGE
ABSTRACT. In this paper I argue that a period of time during which nothing changes in the world is impossible. I do this by exposing the conceptual dependence of time on change. My argument rests on a view of necessary conditions for the meaningfulness of expressions in language. I end up concluding..
THE NOT-SO-STRANGE CASE OF THE ABSTRACT ENTITY WHO SMOKED A PIPE: A REPLY TO SAWYER
ABSTRACT. Nathan Salmon has proposed that expressions such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ refer to abstract objects in both their object fictional and meta-fictional occurrences, but that when they occur in meta-fictional occurrences we pretend that the object to which they refer is not an abstract object but..
ANTICIPATING THE FORMS
ABSTRACT. My aim here is to determine whether in Plato’s early dialogues—Meno, Phaedo, Euthyphro—there is enough evidence to suggest the presence of his theory of Forms. While the theory of recollection (anamnesis) is present in both Meno and Phaedo, the conventional wisdom is that we only find the ..
SEMANTIC INNATENESS
ABSTRACT. Various objections have been raised against the thesis of semantic innateness – the view that all (or most) of our concepts are innate – and the arguments in its favor. Its main contemporary advocate, Jerry Fodor, no longer adheres to this radical view. Yet the issue is still alive. The ob..