Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property
of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey
of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness.
The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness,
which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer
science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential
for further contextual specification, and proposes a unified
logical treatment of indefiniteness on this basis. The inherent
inconsistency of natural language induced by irreducible
imprecision is investigated, and treated in terms of a dynamic
extension of the proposed logic. The book is an extended edition of
a German monograph and is addressed to advanced students and
researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics, logic,
philosophy of language, and NL- oriented AI. Although it makes
extensive use of logical formalisms, it requires only some basic
familiarity with standard predicate logic concepts since all
technical terms are carefully explained.
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