Varieties of Linguistic Economy. Essays on Scope and Binding

Nasta, Andrei (2015) Varieties of Linguistic Economy. Essays on Scope and Binding. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
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Date Deposited: 01 Jul 2015 09:19
Last Modified: 01 Jul 2015 09:19
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53452
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