Formal Semantics: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780521374637 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 364 str.

Ronnie Cann (University of Edinburgh)

Opis

This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation to Montague's intentional logic.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Predicates and arguments; 3. Negation and co-ordination; 4. Type theory; 5. Lambda abstraction; 6. Quantification; 7. Inference; 8. Time, tense, and aspect; 9. Possible worlds; 10. Intensional semantics.