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The Elements of Mathematical Semantics

By Maurice V. Aldridge

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1992
ISBN
9783110871432, 9783110129571
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15216452 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 66
Pages
272\276
Time added
2023-05-24 07:23:45

Description

1 Some topics in semantics 1.1 Aims of this study 1.2 Mathematical linguistics 1.3 A functional view of meaning 1.4 Truth conditions and truth values 1.5 Counterfactuals 1.6 Compositionality and syntax 1.7 Pragmatics 1.8 Propositional relations 1.9 Ambiguity 1.10 Formal logic and natural languages 1.11 Universal semantics 2 Background notions from mathematics 2.1 Purpose of this chapter 2.2 Sets 2.3 The cardinality of a set 2.4 Product sets 2.5 Relations and functions 2.6 Equivalence relations 2.7 Boolean algebras 2.8 Isomorphisms and homomorphisms 2.9 Effective processes 3 Background notions from formal logic 3.1 Scope of this chapter 3.2 The calculus of propositions 3.3 The nature of propositions 3.4 Monotonicity 3.5 The predicate calculus 3.6 Modal logic 3.7 Lambda abstraction 3.8 Montague’s intensional logic 4 Vagueness and ambiguity 4.1 Background 4.2 Ambiguity 4.3 Structural ambiguity 4.4 De dicto vs de re 4.5 Intensions and temporal quantifiers 4.6 Modalities 4.7 Regimentation 5 Logical form in binding theory 5.1 Levels of representation 5.2 Logical form 5.3 Wellformedness in binding theory 5.4 Case 5.5 Logical form in semantic representation 6 Pragmatics 6.1 Definition of pragmatics 6.2 Indices 6.3 Contextual properties 6.4 Performatives 6.5 Fuzziness 6.6 Presuppositions 6.7 Types of semantic presupposition 6.8 Truth-value gaps 6.9 Primary and secondary presuppositions 6.10 Presuppositions and questions 6.11 Pragmatic presuppositions 7 Categorial grammar 7.1 Categorial grammar 7.2 A severely limited grammar 7.3 Some category assignments 7.4 Abbreviations 7.5 Spelling-out rules 7.6 The lexicon 8 Semantic rules 8.1 Semantic rules 8.2 Logical and nonlogical connectives 8.3 Nominals 8.4 Some verb types 8.5 Wh-words 8.6 Adjectives 8.7 Adverbs Bibliography Index

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