Overview

This Handbook presents cutting edge articles on the present state-of-the-art in the philosophy of linguistics. It features prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists investigating foundational issues across subdisciplines of linguistics, cognitive science, and computational approaches to the study of language. In addition to providing a broad overview of the field, it offers novel interpretations and accounts of pressing issues across the interdisciplinary landscape of the language sciences. With chapters on the foundations of syntax, metasemantics, phonology, computational linguistics, developmental linguistics, and cognitive neurolinguistics, the Handbook will be a valuable resource for those interested in the origins of language, its formal underpinnings, its cognitive implementation, and its social manifestations. The collected chapters both introduce a wide range of related fields and identifies core philosophical assumptions and implications. Previously neglected topics in philosophy of language and philosophical reflections on linguistics covered here include field linguistics and research, sociolinguistics, and the intersecting history of the philosophy of language and linguistic theory. The Handbook aims to inspire new research by thoroughly investigating, analyzing, and clarifying the foundations of linguistics while promoting unique avenues for future collaborations.

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Author:   Ryan M. Nefdt (University of Cape Town and the University of Bristol) ,  Gabe Dupre (University of California, Davis) ,  Kate Hazel Stanton (University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.372kg
ISBN:  

9780198879640

ISBN 10:   0198879644
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   28 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Gabe Dupre, Ryan M. Nefdt, and Kate Hazel Stanton: Introduction PART I: ONTOLOGY 2: Robert J. Stainton, Arthur Sullivan, and Christopher D. Viger: Platonism in the Philosophy of Linguistics 3: Geoffrey Pullum: Rules of Grammar 4: Louise McNally: Levels and Strata in Linguistic Modeling: Cross-Domain Considerations 5: Alex Chabot: What Phonology Is and Why it Should Be 6: John Collins: Merge 7: J. T. M. Miller: Words PART II: METHODOLOGY 8: Martin Haspelmath: Breadth versus Depth: Theoretical Reasons for System-Independent Comparison of Languages 9: Charles Reiss: Research Methods in Armchair Linguistics 10: Ryan M. Nefdt and Michael B. Kac: Some Thoughts on Formalization in Linguistics 11: Maria Mercedes Piñango: What Experimentation Reveals about Linguistic Meaning and its Cognitive Structure 12: Friederike Moltmann: Philosophical and Linguistic Intuitions and the Core-Periphery Distinction 13: Kevin Richardson: Do the Laws of Semantics Lie? 14: Gabe Dupre: How and Why To Draw The Competence/Performance Distinction PART III: METASEMANTICS AND METAPRAGMATICS 15: Jaroslav Peregrin: The Inferential Construal of Meaning 16: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical Semantics and Philosophy 17: Alexis Wellwood: Acquiring a Meaning for More 18: Guillermo Del Pinal: Degrees of Grammaticalization in Scalar and Quantity-Based Implicatures 19: Dorit Bar-On: Pragmatics as Psychology: Language, Animal Communication, and Protolanguage 20: Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Christine Howes: Dynamic Syntax: Foundations and Developments 21: Henk Zeevat and Grégoire Winterstein: Minimal Bayesian Foundations for Pragmatics PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF UNDEREXPLORED LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES 22: Carlos Santana: Research Ethics in Linguistic Fieldwork 23: Rajend Mesthrie and Ryan M. Nefdt: A Guide to Sociolinguistics as De-idealisation 24: Giosuè Baggio, Jonathan R. Brennan, and Andrea E. Martin: Explanation in the Neuroscience of Language 25: Raphaël Millière: Language Models as Models of Language PART V: EXTENSIONS AND APPLICATIONS 26: Emar Maier: Pictorial Language and Linguistics 27: Pritty Patel-Grosz: The Primate Gestural Meaning Continuum 28: Fintan Mallory: The Philosophy of Online Speech 29: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Countability: Linguistic Thoughts for Philosophers; Philosophic Thoughts for Linguists 30: Yael Sharvit: Some Linguistic Truths about True Sentences 31: Kate Hazel Stanton: Creativity: Creative and Uncreative

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Ryan M. Nefdt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Gabe Dupre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Kate Hazel Stanton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

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