Introduction to Natural Language Semantics

Name: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics
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ISBN: 9781575861388

ISBN-10: 1575861380

ISBN-13: 9781575861388

Edition: 1998

Authors: Henriï¿½tte de Swart

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Determining what the meanings of words of the language are and how to semantically combine elements of a language to build up complex meanings, this text examines what issues semantics should address as a theory of meaning.

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
Publication date: 8/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 0.58" wide x 0.93" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



What is meaning?



Desiderata for a theory of meaning



Connectives, truth, and truth conditions



Predication and quantification



Scope and anaphora



Discourse and donkey anaphora



Limits of first-order predicate logic



Generalized Quantifier theory



Worlds and times


Appendix


References


Subject Index


Name Index