Taking Scope The Natural Semantics of Quantifiers

Name: Taking Scope The Natural Semantics of Quantifiers
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ISBN: 9780262017077

ISBN-10: 0262017075

ISBN-13: 9780262017077

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mark Steedman

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In Taking Scope, Mark Steedman considers the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope in interaction with negation, polarity, coordination, and pronominal binding, among other constructions. The semantics is "surface compositional," in that there is a direct correspondence between syntactic types and operations of composition and types and compositions at the level of logical form. In that sense, the semantics is in the "natural logic" tradition of Aristotle, Leibniz, Frege, Russell, and others who sought to define a psychologically real logic directly reflecting natural language grammar.The book reunites the generative-transformational tradition initiated by Chomsky--which views the formal…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/23/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298

Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Surface Structure and Interpretation (1996) and The Syntactic Process (2000), both published by the MIT Press.