Quantifiers in language and logic [[electronic resource] /] / Stanley Peters, Dag Westerståhl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785001103321
• Autore: Peters Stanley <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-87019-2; 0-19-151623-6; 1-4294-6984-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (549 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WesterståhlDag <1946->
• Disciplina: 121.68; 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers; Language and logic; Semantics
• 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 (p. [511]-520) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 0. Quantification; I: THE LOGICAL CONCEPTION OF QUANTIFIERS AND QUANTIFICATION; II: QUANTIFIERS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE; III: BEGINNINGS OF A THEORY OF EXPRESSIVENESS, TRANSLATION, AND FORMALIZATION; IV: LOGICAL RESULTS ON EXPRESSIBILITY WITH LINGUISTIC APPLICATIONS; References; Index; Index of Symbols
• Sommario/riassunto: Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role. - ;Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of t