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Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (Linguistics: The Essential Readings)

By Barbara H. Partee , Paul Portner

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2002
ISBN
9780631215424, 0631215425
LCC
P325 .F645 2002
Open Library ID
OL3701220M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
54 MB (56640239 bytes)
Series
Linguistics: The Essential Readings
Pages
495\495
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика

Description

This is a great book if you are part of a younger generation that did not grow up professionally while these papers were first being written/discussed. A few selections seem out of place, or perhaps are not quite as foundational as others, but overall it is a collection well worth having. Read from beginning to end you will have a basic handle on a large number of central topics in semantics. As a primer I recommend "Introduction to Montague Semantics" by Dowty, Wall, and Peters. Most papers within "... The Essential Readings" take for granted an understanding of PTQ theory that is historically hard to acquire just based off Montegue's original paper (which is included as Chapter 1 of "... The Essential Readings").

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