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from Part II - Some Foundational Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
The “Logicality of language” is the hypothesis that the human language system includes not only a recursive grammar with a compositional semantics, as currently assumed by most semanticists and philosophers of language, but also a natural logic (Abrusán, 2014; Chierchia, 2013; Del Pinal, 2019; Fox, 2000; Fox and Hackl, 2007; Gajewski, 2002). The natural logic, on this view, is part of a computational/inferential system that automatically identifies and filters out expressions that have certain logical properties that make them informationally useless.
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