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Autore: | Peters Stanley <1941-> |
Titolo: | Quantifiers in language and logic / / Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (549 p.) |
Disciplina: | 121.68 |
415 | |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers |
Language and logic | |
Semantics | |
Altri autori: | WesterstahlDag <1946-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Quantifiers in language and logic |
ISBN: | 1-280-87019-2 |
0-19-151623-6 | |
1-4294-6984-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823782203321 |
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