[lit-ideas] Something Up With I Shall Not Put (Is: Grice on prepositions
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:39:35 EST
In a message dated 12/1/2009 2:31:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
that one hold a number of prepositional clauses in mind
simultaneously in order to understand an utterance. (Yes, I think Grice had
something to say about this too.)
---- Right. Grice concluded, from reading Frege, that a preoposition is
otiose. It's the "Fido"-Fido theory of language. "Fido" _makes_ sense: it
refers to Fido. But, Grice asks, 'surely we don't want to say that 'to' refers
to _to_." From there, he concludes that all prepositions are best treated
as part of the verb, e.g. vomit, vo-mit, sub-vo-mit, etc.
Cheers,
JLS
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