Value, 205 variables, 113

Venn diagrams, 111 verbal component, 36 verifiability principle, 140-1, 145,

149 verificatioriism see verificationist theory

of meaning verificationist theory of meaning, 40,

131-2, 140-1, 144, 149,237 " Vienna Circle, 140 Vietnamese, 25, 30 vocabulary, 47

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and grammar, 48, 52 vocabulary-units, 51, 220 vocabulary-words, 47 volativcs, 193-8 Voltaire, Candide, \ 18

well-formedness, 62, 72, 124, 134-5,

138,215

tu/z-questions, 187-8 wh-sentences, 187 Whorf, Lee, 90, 97, 106 wider scope, 175 Wilkins, Bishop, 86 wishes, 176 Wittgenstein Ludwig, 140, 144, 256

and language-games, 292

no such thing as meaning, 41, 43 word-and-paradigm grammar, 66 word-based grammar, 48 word-expressions, 50 word-formation, 51, 105 word-forms, 35, 4<i, 50, 65 71 word-meaning, 33

distinguished from sentence-meaning,

33-4

and lexical meaning, 70

logical priority of sentence-meaning

over, 69-71, 103 word-order, 155 6 word-to-word relations, 100 1 word-to-world relations, 100 1 words

defining the meaning of, 75 101

forms and meanings, 22-32

as meaningful units, 46 74 'Words and deeds' (Austin), 238 world

in a, 119,232

of the, 119,232 world-knowledge, 142 writing-system, 23, 24 written language, 9, 23

and spoken language, 36 7, 236 written text, and spoken text, 258

x-questions, 183, 187 -93 yes-no questions, 183 7 zero-point, 304, 305, 314,316