Formal Semantics
This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation to Montague's intentional logic.
Product details
February 1993Hardback
9780521374637
364 pages
235 × 157 × 26 mm
0.677kg
13 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Predicates and arguments
- 3. Negation and co-ordination
- 4. Type theory
- 5. Lambda abstraction
- 6. Quantification
- 7. Inference
- 8. Time, tense, and aspect
- 9. Possible worlds
- 10. Intensional semantics.