There are, however, translators who insert the connective 'if' after the connective 'and', thereby decoupling B from A, a move that strongly suggests that they understand the argument (if it were to be expressed as a conditional in the
object language) after the fashion of T2.
In RRG terms, primary
object languages permit only the marked linking possibility in terms of the AUH.
Here the intended interpretation of underlining is that it represents a function mapping every expression string e of the
object language (all such strings are assumed to belong to the intended domain) to a name e (also in the
object language) such that e names, in the intended interpretation, e.
In Chapter 3, we encounter the first of the new
object languages. Hintikka points out that the games associated with ordinary first-order (or higher-order) sentences assume perfect information in the sense that at each step, the relevant player knows all previous moves and choices.
This separation of abstract requirements from concrete satisfiers corresponds to the distinction between logical and physical storage in a virtual memory computer, which, in turn, corresponds to the distinction between
object language and metalanguage in metamathematics.
Against the background of this claim, one is at least allowed to voice a doubt as to whether it is appropriate to devote a fifth of the book to a polemic that, in common with most generative grammar, uses English as its
object language (that is, it does nothing to increase students' appreciation of the German language), and for many undergraduates may well be so arcane as to leave them cold.
Now, the aboutness relation holds between an
object language and its objects.
That is, the implications that can be drawn from talk about the changing face of literary theory and about the elusiveness of its object of observation can vary and do not necessarily lead to a total merging of metalanguage and
object language nor to a total disbelief in the ability of metalanguage to explain and represent its object.
It claims that natural language contains variables and quantifiers for possible worlds in the
object language. Thus, the truth of a sentence's semantic value must be relativized to several worlds rather than to one, and thus be distinguished from a traditional proposition.
Tarski argued that an adequate theory of truth for a language would have to meet his 'Convention T'--generating for every sentence s in the language a theorem or 'T-sentence' of the form '(T) s is T iffp' where '"s" is replaced with a structural description of an
object language sentence ...
Learners of Bantu languages must therefore determine whether they are learning a symmetrical or an asymmetrical
object language. In the case of Sesotho, they must also learn that postverbal word order, pronominalization, and passivization all interact with the animacy of the object NPs.