Collections and calls for papers

Among the questions we broach in this special issue are the extent to which open texture is a phenomenon of natural languages, how the notion is best described, and to what extent semantics (and logic) can a...

Linguists study language. But what is language? Paraphrasing De Saussure's (1916) influential definition, a language is a system of signs used for communication. But that definition already takes us beyond t...