Meaning and Partiality (Hardcover, This Beautiful Gift Contains T Ed.)

Muskens radically simplifies Montague Semantics and generalises the theory by basing it on a partial higher order logic resulting in a theory which combines important aspects of Montague Semantics and Situation Semantics. Richard Montague formulated the revolutionary insight that we can understand the concept of meaning in ordinary languages much in the same way as we understand the semantics of logical languages. Unfortunately, he formalised his idea in an unnecessarily complex way. The present work does away with unnecessary complexities, obtains a streamlined version of the theory, shows how partialising the theory automatically provides us with the most central concepts of Situation Semantics, and offers a simple logical treatment of propositional attitude verbs, perception verbs and proper names.

General

Imprint:	Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Logic Language and Information
Release date:	June 1995
Authors:	Reinhard Muskens
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	151
Edition:	This Beautiful Gift Contains T Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-881526-80-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-881526-80-1
Barcode:	9781881526803

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