Background
Sandu, Gabriel Niculae was born on November 6, 1954 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Gheorghe and Paula (Pana) Sandu.
(In this book the authors propose to apply ideas from rece...)
In this book the authors propose to apply ideas from recent philosophy of science, especially Hintikka's "interrogative model of inquiry", to linguistic theorizing. Using the phenomena of co-reference as a testing ground, they examine how Hintikka's game-theoretical semantics (GTS) and Chomsky's government and binding theory (GB) account for the co-reference relations that hold in simple sample sentences. This produces interesting areas of divergence between the two theories. The general conclusion to emerge from this comparison is the difficulty of dealing with co-reference phenomena in any syntax-oriented theory. By systematically varying certain instructive examples, the authors uncover telling evidence against any syntax-based account of co-reference phenomena in English. In the concluding chapter of the book, evidence is similarly produced against any syntactical explanation of reflexivization in English. In each of the cases analyzed GTS readily accounts for the phenomena discussed.
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Sandu, Gabriel Niculae was born on November 6, 1954 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Gheorghe and Paula (Pana) Sandu.
Master Economics, A.S.E., Bucharest, 1978. Master of Philosophy, University Helsinki, Finland, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, University Helsinki, Finland, 1991.
Researcher, Academy of Finland, since 1986; project leader, Academy of Finland, since 1994; docent, U. Helsinki, since 1992.
(In this book the authors propose to apply ideas from rece...)
Married Marita Leena Liikka, June 11, 1978. Children: Daniela, Cristina.