This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine
to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to
combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would
produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category
mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both
an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types
and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for
example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types
that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author
integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical
meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in
types are a feature of the compositional process and account for
various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book
will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and
computer scientists alike.
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