Language, Form, and Logic: In Pursuit of Natural Logic's Holy Grail

ISBN-13: 9780199591534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 464 str.

Department of Comparative and Gen Saso (Assistant Professor

Recenzje

This book takes an idea first explored by Medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science...The result is a beautiful formal tapestry in which p-scope unlocks important properties of natural language, including the property of 'restrictedness,' which they prove to be equivalent to the semantic notion of conservativity. More than that, they show that restrictedness is also a key to understanding quantification and discourse anaphora, and many other linguistic phenomena.

O autorze

Peter Ludlow received his PhD in Philosophy at Columbia University in 1985, then worked in Honeywell's Intelligent Interface Systems Group, and taught at Stony Brook University, The University of Michigan, The University of Toronto, and Northwestern University. He is currently a Research Associate in the Center for Logic and Epistemology at the University of Campinas, Brazil and is working on topics ranging from the philosophy of language and epistemology to the ethics of hacking and the philosophical foundations of blockchain technology. Sašo Živanović graduated in Mathematics in 2002, and received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ljubljana in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. His research interests range from semantics to phonology of natural language, and include the architecture and the evolution of the human language faculty.