In this paper we focus on the logicality of language, i.e. the idea that the language system contains a deductive device to exclude analytic constructions. Puzzling evidence
for the logicality of language comes from acceptable contradictions and tautologies.
The standard response in the literature involves assuming that the language system
only accesses analyticities that are due to skeletons as opposed to standard logical
forms. In this paper we submit evidence in support of alternative accounts ...
In this paper we focus on the logicality of language, i.e. the idea that the language system contains a deductive device to exclude analytic constructions. Puzzling evidence
for the logicality of language comes from acceptable contradictions and tautologies.
The standard response in the literature involves assuming that the language system
only accesses analyticities that are due to skeletons as opposed to standard logical
forms. In this paper we submit evidence in support of alternative accounts of logicality, which reject the stipulation of a natural logic and assume instead the meaning
modulation of nonlogical terms.
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