BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-72-289
       ENTRY:: October 16, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Lakoff on linguistics and natural logic.
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Wilks, Yorick A.
        DATE:: June 1972
       PAGES:: 21
    ABSTRACT:: The paper examines and criticises Lakoff's notions of a
               natural logic and of a generative semantics described in
               terms of logic. I argue that the relationship of these
               notions to logic as normally understood is unclear, but I
               suggest, in the course of the paper, a number of possible
               interpretations of his thesis of generative semantics. I
               argue further that on these interpretations the thesis (of
               Generative Semantics) is false, unless it be taken as a mere
               notational variant of Chomskyan theory. I argue, too, that
               Lakoff's work may provide a service in that it constitutes a
               reductio ad absurdum of the derivational paradigm of modern
               linguistics; and shows, inadvertently, that only a system
               with the ability to reconsider its own inferences can do the
               job that Lakoff sets up for linguistic enquiry -- that is to
               say, only an "artificial intelligence" system.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19951016]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-72-289