Formal semantics [[electronic resource] ] : the essential readings / / edited by Paul Portner and Barbara H. Partee

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Blackwell, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Disciplina: 401.43; 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Semantics; Linguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PortnerPaul ParteeBarbara Hall
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English; 2 A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural; 3 Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language; 4 The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach; 5 Assertion; 6 Scorekeeping in a Language Game; 7 Adverbs of Quantification; 8 A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation; 9 File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness; 10 On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions ; 11 Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English "Imperfective" Progressive12 The Notional Category of Modality; 13 The Algebra of Events; 14 Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity; 15 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles; 16 Syntax and Semantics of Questions; 17 Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives; 18 On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Formal semantics
• ISBN: 1-281-32128-1; 9786611321284; 0-470-70155-2; 0-470-75833-3; 0-470-75818-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145688703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistics: The Essential Readings