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  • I should note a criticism that comes from Lakoff and other “Cognitive Linguists”: formal semanticists don’t work on metaphor, because formal semantics is inadequate for dealing with metaphor, and deals only with ’easy’ parts of natural language. There is probably a grain of truth to this, and it is undoubtedly connected with the relative narrowness of treatments of lexical meaning within formal semantics. (Formal semanticists have a great deal to say about the semantics of “logical words”, and about aspects of the semantics of open-class words that impinge directly on their contribution to compositional meaning, but very little to say about what distinguishes the meanings of open- class words whose more ‘formal’ properties are alike.) I don’t believe that formal semantics will ever account for ‘all of meaning’. But I believe that it does very well at accounting for the truth-conditional core of literal meaning, which is not handled in any explicit way within Cognitive Linguistics. And we’re getting better at solving problems, and there is progress on semantic issues in language typology, language history, language acquisition, pragmatics and discourse, computational linguistic applications, and more. And as the field has made progress, new questions have opened up. I have really not said anything about the work of the last thirty years, and it is that work by which the fruitfulness of the field can best be judged.
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