Informational semanticists such as Jerry Fodor argue that the content of lexical concepts is cons... more Informational semanticists such as Jerry Fodor argue that the content of lexical concepts is constituted by nomological links between the concepts and the corresponding properties. While such an approach can account for the content of concepts such as CAT, BACHELOR, and maybe even DOORKNOB, it cannot account for the content of logical concepts: however much of an ontological liberal one may be, it is not plausible that the concept AND (say) gets its content from a nomological link with an abstract property of conjunction. The usual approach taken by informational semanticists has been to accept instead an inferential-role account of the logical terms. Recently, however, Fodor (2004a) has rejected this inferential-role view of the content of such terms, leaving open the question of how their content is constituted.
A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological prin... more A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological principles of the grammar. If it does, the utterance is an expression of the given language. This does not imply, however, that the utterance of such a sentence can be used appropriately in any discourse context. Discourse is organized by information packaging devices, such as topic, focus etc. If the information structure of a particular expression does not match the information packaging required by the context, the expression is infelicitous in that context, albeit grammatically well-formed. For instance, the utterance in (1b) is not felicitous in the context of (1a), even though it is a well-formed expression of English. 1
A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological prin... more A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological principles of the grammar. If it does, the utterance is an expression of the given language. This does not imply, however, that the utterance of such a sentence can be used appropriately in any discourse context. Discourse is organized by information packaging devices, such as topic, focus etc. If the information structure of a particular expression does not match the information packaging required by the context, the expression is infelicitous in that context, albeit grammatically well-formed. For instance, the utterance in (1b) is not felicitous in the context of (1a), even though it is a well-formed expression of English. 1
Informational semanticists such as Jerry Fodor argue that the content of lexical concepts is cons... more Informational semanticists such as Jerry Fodor argue that the content of lexical concepts is constituted by nomological links between the concepts and the corresponding properties. While such an approach can account for the content of concepts such as CAT, BACHELOR, and maybe even DOORKNOB, it cannot account for the content of logical concepts: however much of an ontological liberal one may be, it is not plausible that the concept AND (say) gets its content from a nomological link with an abstract property of conjunction. The usual approach taken by informational semanticists has been to accept instead an inferential-role account of the logical terms. Recently, however, Fodor (2004a) has rejected this inferential-role view of the content of such terms, leaving open the question of how their content is constituted.
A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological prin... more A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological principles of the grammar. If it does, the utterance is an expression of the given language. This does not imply, however, that the utterance of such a sentence can be used appropriately in any discourse context. Discourse is organized by information packaging devices, such as topic, focus etc. If the information structure of a particular expression does not match the information packaging required by the context, the expression is infelicitous in that context, albeit grammatically well-formed. For instance, the utterance in (1b) is not felicitous in the context of (1a), even though it is a well-formed expression of English. 1
A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological prin... more A well-formed sentence satisfies all the syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological principles of the grammar. If it does, the utterance is an expression of the given language. This does not imply, however, that the utterance of such a sentence can be used appropriately in any discourse context. Discourse is organized by information packaging devices, such as topic, focus etc. If the information structure of a particular expression does not match the information packaging required by the context, the expression is infelicitous in that context, albeit grammatically well-formed. For instance, the utterance in (1b) is not felicitous in the context of (1a), even though it is a well-formed expression of English. 1
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