(eBook PDF) Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation (The MIT Press)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262039206
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262039208
• Author: Brendan S. Gillon 

An introduction to natural language semantics that offers an overview of the empirical domain and an explanation of the mathematical concepts that underpin the discipline. This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of those approaches to natural language semantics that use the insights of logic. Many other texts on the subject focus on presenting a particular theory of natural language semantics. This text instead offers an overview of the empirical domain (drawn largely from standard descriptive grammars of English) as well as the mathematical tools that are applied to it. Readers are shown where the concepts of logic apply, where they fail to apply, and where they might apply, if suitably adjusted.

Table contents:

1 Introduction

2 States of Affairs

3 Word Meaning and Reference

4 Mental Content

5 Semantic Essentials

6 Relations

7 Concluding Remarks

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