The logical grammar of Abelard / by Roberto Pinzani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinzani, Roberto.

Series:

New synthese historical library ; v. 51.

The new synthese historical library ; v. 51

Standardized Title:

Grammatica logica di Abelardo. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.

Abelard, Peter.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar.

Physical Description:

vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "twelfth-century Renaissance." He 'picks up the baton' from Boethius resuming the activity of commenting on Aristotle's works. The present book focuses on the logical-grammatical analysis of natural language, which for Abelard is a fragment of "scientific Latin." Tools of modern categorial grammar are employed to clarify many of the problems raised by historiography (such as meaning, abstract entities and universals). Among the merits of the volume is the fact that it has enlightened the radical interplay between the traditions of Aristotle's and Priscian's commentators and, in this context, Abelard's peculiar role in exploring a new field of linguistic inquiry. An ample analysis of grammatical sources and critical literature allows to evaluate the progress which is at the basis of the forthcoming terministic logic. The book is aimed at scholars of medieval philosophy as well as historians of logic and linguistics.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Grammatical Sources 7

1.1 Grammatici logicis consentientes 7

1.2 Categorization 10

1.3 Lexical categories 15

1.4 Composition 23

1.5 The meaning relation 27

1.6 Predication and truth 31

Chapter 2 Categories and Lexicon 41

2.1 Categorization 41

2.2 Categories and type meanings 44

2.3 Semantic categories 49

2.4 Derived expressions 60

2.5 Non-defined expressions 64

Chapter 3 Grammatical Composition 79

3.1 Syntactic rules 79

3.2 Pronouns and determiners 85

3.3 Expressions composed of common nouns and adjectives 92

3.4 Expressions composed by 'est' and nominal phrases 96

3.5 Complex sentences 100

3.6 Modal phrases 105

3.7 'Determined' modal expressions 111

Chapter 4 Meaning 123

4.1 Problems of semantic representation 123

4.2 Denotations of terms and sentences 126

4.3 The meaning relation 131

4.4 Composition of meanings 136

4.5 Transfers of Meaning 138

4.6 The Conceptual Meaning 145

Chapter 5 Predication and Truth 159

5.1 Praedicari de pluribus 159

5.2 The meaning of predicative link 165

5.3 The truth: Consequentia de propositionibus ad res 171

5.4 The truth of categorical propositions 174

5.5 The truth of hypothetical propositions 181

5.6 A model for modalities 186

A.1 Elements of the Montague grammar 197

A.2 A logic of denotation 203

A.3 Logic DL 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and indexes.

ISBN:

1402012462

OCLC:

51912648