Pistoia-Reda, SalvatoreSan Mauro, LucaSoto-Coromina, Adriana2022-05-172022-05-172021Pistoia-Reda S, San Mauro L. On logicality and natural logic. Nat Lang Semant. 2021;29(3):501-6. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-021-09184-00925-854Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/53103In 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.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2021 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11050-021-09184-0Language logicalityTrivialityUngrammaticalityAcceptable analyticitiesFunctional vs. nonfunctional vocabularyMeaning modulationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess