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A priori 11-12 Abelard, Peter
conditionals 274-275 nominalism 32
philosophy of language 489, 490
Abhidhana 123 Aboutness 55, 75
see also Topic Absolute 491
Abstract ideas 12-13, 147
natural kinds and 31
nominal/real essence distinction 31 picture theory of meaning and 167-168
Abstract objectivists 98
Abstract objects, nominalism and 32-33 Abstract worlds 357-358
Abstraction 12-13
lambda 320-321 Stoics 478
type theory 314, 316
Accommodation, presuppositional 367 Achinstein, P., ordinary language philosophy 36 Acquisition of language
apes 47-52
categorization 59-64
in children: overview 64-68 connectionism 67
default parameters 60
early concepts 59-64
environmental influences 65-66 grammatical development in children 64
Brown and Wells studies 64-65 cross-sectional simulations 66
data archiving 66
data sampling 64-65
innateness hypothesis 65 innateness/environment debate 65-66 longitudinal sampling 66
grammatical overregularization 66-67 innate grammar 509, 510
innate ideas
linguistic signs and 247
in philosophy of linguistics 38
innate mental schemata 509, 5110 innateness hypothesis 59-60, 63, 65, 67-68 linguistic theory and 67-68
maturational schedule 60
methodology and theory
current 66-68
history 64-66
morphology 67
nativist theory, holism and 117-118 organization/reorganization of rules and
representations 67 parameter setting 67
Null Subjects 67 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 81 semantic bootstrapping 60, 63 universal grammar and 175
Action, Ancient Greek grammar 476 Actions, methodological solipsism and 30 Addition, Aristotle 475
Adjacency principle, categorial grammar 305 Adjectives
ambiguity 371
Aristotle 476
unmarked, problem-solving and 88
Advaita VedSnta 125
Adverbs, ambiguity 371
Aesthetics and moral philosophy, Kant 485 Affection, Aristotle 476
Agreement, Ancient Greek grammar 475-476, 501 Agricola, Rudolphus 489
Ajdukiewicz/Bar Hillel calculus 314-315 AlamkQrasastra 125
Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) 493
Albert of Saxony 491
Alphabets, Ancient Greek 500
Ambiguity 370-371, 387-388
ambivalence and 387-388 co-text and 387
context and 387
de dicto versus de re 352-353 derivational 323
homonymy 387
indexicals and 223
lexical 323
linguistic 387
literary 388
Montague Grammar 346, 351-353 multiple 370
natural language 323 polysemy 387 pronouns 370-371 scope 323, 351,352 structural 323
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