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Seuren, P. A. M. (2005). The origin of grammatical terminology. In B. Smelik, R. Hofman, C. Hamans, & D. Cram (
Eds. ), A companion in linguistics: A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (pp. 185-196). Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2005). The role of lexical data in semantics. In A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, & P. R. Lutzeier (
Eds. ), Lexikologie / Lexicology. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen/An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies. 2. Halbband / Volume 2 (pp. 1690-1696). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2005). Eubulides as a 20th-century semanticist. Language Sciences, 27(1), 75-95. doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2003.12.001.
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It is the purpose of the present paper to highlight the figure of Eubulides, a relatively unknown Greek philosopher who lived ±405–330 BC and taught at Megara, not far from Athens. He is mainly known for his four paradoxes (the Liar, the Sorites, the Electra, and the Horns), and for the mutual animosity between him and his younger contemporary Aristotle. The Megarian school of philosophy was one of the main sources of the great Stoic tradition in ancient philosophy. What has never been made explicit in the literature is the importance of the four paradoxes for the study of meaning in natural language: they summarize the whole research programme of 20th century formal or formally oriented semantics, including the problems of vague predicates (Sorites), intensional contexts (Electra), and presuppositions (Horns). One might say that modern formal or formally oriented semantics is essentially an attempt at finding linguistically tenable answers to problems arising in the context of Aristotelian thought. It is a surprising and highly significant fact that a contemporary of Aristotle already spotted the main weaknesses of the Aristotelian paradigm. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2002). Pseudoarguments and pseudocomplements. In B. Nevin (
Ed. ), The legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st Century: 1 Philosophy of Science, Syntax, and Semantics (pp. 179-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2002). The logic of thinking. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Mededelingen van de Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, 65(9), 5-35.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (2002). Clitic clusters in French and Italian. In H. Jacobs, & L. Wetzels (
Eds. ), Liber Amicorum Bernard Bichakjian (pp. 217-233). Maastricht: Shaker. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2002). Existential import. In D. De Jongh, M. Nilsenová, & H. Zeevat (
Eds. ), Proceedings of The 3rd and 4th International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. Amsterdam: ILLC Scientific Publ. U. of Amsterdam. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (2002). [Review of the book Indigenous Grammar Across Cultures ed. by Hannes Kniffka]. Linguistics, 40(5), 1090-1096.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). Western linguistics: An historical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). [Review of the book Adverbial subordination; A typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages by Bernd Kortmann]. Cognitive Linguistics, 9(3), 317-319. doi:10.1515/cogl.1998.9.3.315.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). [Review of the book The Dutch pendulum: Linguistics in the Netherlands 1740-1900 by Jan Noordegraaf]. Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society, 31, 46-50.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). Obituary. Herman Christiaan Wekker 1943–1997. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 13(1), 159-162.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). Western linguistics: An historical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1998). Towards a discourse-semantic account of donkey anaphora. In S. Botley, & T. McEnery (
Eds. ), New Approaches to Discourse Anaphora: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution (DAARC2) (pp. 212-220). Lancaster: Universiy Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, Lancaster University.
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