ENGLISH

Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics

By Emmon W. Bach

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0887067727, 0887067719, 9780887067723, 9780585063614
LCC
P325 .B27 1989
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
574 kB (587738 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Linguistics
Pages
168\168
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика

Description

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential part of the work in theoretical linguistics over the last decade. The author examines the model structure of Montague’s theory and then presents elaborations on this basic model that have been of particular importance in the last few years: generalized quantifiers, the introduction of more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar ’smaller’ world like entities. Nothing is presupposed about knowledge of the mathematical and logical tools used in formal semantics, and Bach presents the informal with a minimum of formalism.

Similar books