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Family resemblance and semantics: the vagaries of a not so new concept

Posted on 13 October 2015 by jeanmfort — 2 Comments

Jean-Michel Fortis Université Paris Diderot The motivation for writing this post is twofold: first, there is still something to be said about the origins of the notion of family resemblance and its application to semantics, most notably in the version…

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No beetle? Wittgenstein’s ‘grammatical illusions’ and Dalabon emotion metaphors

Posted on 18 September 2013 by maiaponsonnet — Leave a comment

Maïa Ponsonnet Australian National University and Dynamique du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon 2) Apart from a few fruitful but pointed encounters, linguistics and philosophy of language often talk past each other. In this post, I try and establish a dialogue between…

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