How long can a sentence be and should anyone care?

Collins, John (2010) How long can a sentence be and should anyone care? Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 10 (3). pp. 199-207.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

It is commonly assumed that natural languages, construed as sets of sentences, contain denumerably many sentences. One argument for this claim is that the sentences of a language must be recursively enumerable by a grammar, if we are to understand how a speaker-hearer could exhibit unbounded competence in a language. The paper defends this reasoning by articulating and defending a principle that excludes the construction of a sentence non-denumerably many words long.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Philosophy (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Depositing User:	Philip Robinson
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2011 15:37
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26696
DOI:	10.5840/croatjphil201010315

Actions (login required)

View Item