In the spring of 1978, one of the authors of this book was sitting in on a course in logic for linguists given by the other author. In attempting to present some of Montague's insights in an elementary way (hopefully avoid- ing the notation which many find difficult at first), the authors began dis- cussions aimed towards the construction of a simple model-theoretical semantic apparatus which could be applied directly to a small English-like language and used to illustrate the methods of formal logical interpretation. In these discussions two points impressed themselves on us. First, our task...
In the spring of 1978, one of the authors of this book was sitting in on a course in logic for linguists given by the other author. In attempting to p...
A volume of studies in natural language semantics which brings together work by philosophers, logicians and linguists. The main topics treated are: quantification and reference in natural language; the relations between formal logic, programming languages and natural language; pragmatics and discourse meaning; surface syntax and logical meaning. The volume derives from a colloquium organised in 1973 by the Kings College Research Centre, Cambridge and the papers have been edited for publication by Professor Keenan. It is hoped that the collection will make available some of the best work in...
A volume of studies in natural language semantics which brings together work by philosophers, logicians and linguists. The main topics treated are: qu...
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook explores 17 languages, including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features.
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook explores 17 languages, including German, Italian, Russian,...
This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan's long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal 'foundation' articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition of 'Subject of'. Most of the other articles have appeared in a variety of relatively inaccessible places, and so this book brings together for the first time a large body of work supporting the research directions taken in the foundation articles. In addition, one article of a...
This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan's long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. I...
This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of model theory as used in (higher order) predicate logic to the study of natural language semantics. It focuses on boolean structure, generalized quantification (separated from variable binding), covering some cases of anaphora. Different categories — predicates, adjective, quantifiers — are modeled by non-isomorphic boolean lattices.Of empirical linguistic interest is the expressibility of many natural classes of quantifiers defined in...
This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of model t...
This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan's long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal 'foundation' articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition of 'Subject of'. Most of the other articles have appeared in a variety of relatively inaccessible places, and so this book brings together for the first time a large body of work supporting the research directions taken in the foundation articles. In addition, one article of a...
This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan's long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. I...
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook explores 17 languages, including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features.
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook explores 17 languages, including German, Italian, Russian,...
This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and sixteen spoken languages from Africa, Australia, Papua, the Americas, and different parts of Asia.
This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families...
