Name: Words and Other Linguistic Entities (en Inglés)
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Author: J. T. M. Miller

portada Words and Other Linguistic Entities (en Inglés)

Words and Other Linguistic Entities (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

OUP Oxford

Autor

J. T. M. Miller

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9780197911495

Words and Other Linguistic Entities (en Inglés)

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Miller develops a detailed and cohesive bundle nominalist theory of words. He illustrates how this view can accommodate a variety of linguistic phenomena and be extended to cover other sorts of linguistic entities, such as letters, sentences, morphemes, phonemes, and languages.

Linguistic entities play a major part in almost all elements of our lives. Despite this, relatively little work exists in philosophy that considers what such entities are. In the work that does focus specifically on the metaphysics of words, the dominant view is type-realism, which posits that words are abstract types, instantiated by concrete tokens. This book argues, however, that type-realism faces a range of problems and that positing abstract types cannot help us to explain a range of ordinary everyday linguistic phenomena.

In its place, this book argues in favour of a novel version of nominalism about words, holding that ordinary claims about words are in fact claims about collections of word-tokens only. Through combining nominalism with a trope-bundle metaphysics, this book proposes a 'bundle-nominalist' metaphysics of words, in which word-tokens are analysed as bundles of particular properties, which cluster in repeatable and predictable ways due to the acting of various homeostatic mechanisms. This view is then extended to other linguistic entities, such as morphemes, phonemes, sentences, and languages. The result is a unified metaphysics of linguistic entities, which is argued to be both consistent with linguistic theorising and highly explanatory. Words and Other Linguistic Entities outlines how this 'bundle-nominalist' metaphysics can provide new insights into a range of linguistic phenomena, including linguistic mistakes, linguistic change, and the nature of offensive language, and can help illuminate ongoing debates over the subject matter of linguistics and the evolution of language.