Record Nr.

UNINA990003331220403321

Autore

Samuelson, Paul Anthony <1915-2009>

Titolo

ECONOMICS

Pubbl/distr/stampa


NEW YORK : Mc GRAW HILL, 1989

Disciplina

330.7

Locazione

DECLI

Collocazione

330.7 SAM /3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Record Nr.

UNISA996203963803316

Autore

Fox Chris <1965->

Titolo

Foundations of intensional semantics / / Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2005]
©2005

ISBN

1-281-31044-1

9786611310448

0-470-77354-5

0-470-77529-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics - Data processing

Semantics

Semantics (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foundations of Intensional Semantics; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Alternative Approaches to Fine-

Grained Intensionality; 3 Intensions as Primitives; 4 A Higher-Order, Fine-Grained Intensional Logic; 5 Property Theory with Curry Typing; 6 Number Theory and Cardinality; 7 Anaphora and Ellipsis; 8 Underspecified Interpretations; 9 Expressive Power and Formal Strength; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades.; focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language.; proposes a theory that offers a promising framework for developing a computational semantic system sufficiently expressive to capture the properties of natural language meaning while remaining computationally tractable.; written by two leading res