Logic, Language, and Meaning
Author : L. T. F. Gamut
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN : 9780226280882
Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1
Author : L. T. F. Gamut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226280844
Book Description
Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions. Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic. In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.
Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar
Author : L.T.F. Gamut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022679170X
Book Description
Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.
Logic, language, and meaning. 2. Intensional logic and logical grammar
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Languages
ISBN : 9780226280882
Book Description
Logic, Language, and Meaning: Intentional logic and logical grammar
Author : L. T. F. Gamut
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Book Description
Logic in Linguistics
Author : Jens Allwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1977-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521291743
Book Description
The authors offer a clear, succinct and basic introduction to set theory and formal logic for linguists.
Type-Logical Semantics
Author : Bob Carpenter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1998-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262531498
Book Description
Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar. It also contains a great deal of original work on categorial grammar and its application to natural-language semantics. The author chose the type-logical categorial grammar as his grammatical basis because of its broad syntactic coverage and its strong linkage of syntax and semantics. Although its basic orientation is linguistic, the book should also be of interest to logicians and computer scientists seeking connections between logical systems and natural language. The book, which stepwise develops successively more powerful logical and grammatical systems, covers an unusually broad range of material. Topics covered include higher-order logic, applicative categorial grammar, the Lambek calculus, coordination and unbounded dependencies, quantifiers and scope, plurals, pronouns and dependency, modal logic, intensionality, and tense and aspect. The book contains more mathematical development than is usually found in texts on natural language; an appendix includes the basic mathematical concepts used throughout the book.
Understanding Semantics
Author : Sebastian Loebner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134647158
Book Description
This series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position. Understanding Semantics offers a complete introduction to linguistic semantics. The book takes a step-by-step approach, starting with the basic concepts and moving through the central questions to examine the methods and results of the science of linguistic meaning. Understanding Semantics unites the treatment of a broad scale of phenomena using data from different languages with a thorough investigation of major theoretical perspectives. It leads the reader from their intuitive knowledge of meaning to a deeper understanding of the use of scientific reasoning in the study of language as a communicative tool, of the nature of linguistic meaning, and of the scope and limitations of linguistic semantics. Ideal as a first textbook in semantics for undergraduate students of linguistics, this book is also recommended for students of literature, philosophy, psychology and cognitive science.
Type Logical Grammar
Author : G.V. Morrill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401110425
Book Description
This book sets out the foundations, methodology, and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational linguistics, and theoretical linguistics more broadly, by developing categorial grammar into a powerful and extendable logic of signs. Taking Montague Grammar as its point of departure, the book explains how integration of methods from philosophy (logical semantics), computer science (type theory), linguistics (categorial grammar) and meta-mathematics (mathematical logic ) provides a categorial foundation with coverage including intensionality, quantification, featural polymorphism, domains and constraints. For the first time, the book systematises categorial thinking into a unified program which is at once both logically secured, and a practical tool for pure lexical grammar development with type-theoretic semantics. It should be of interest to all those active in computational linguistics and formal grammar and is suitable for use at advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels.
Elements of Formal Semantics
Author : Yoad Winter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748677771
Book Description
Introducing some of the foundational concepts, principles and techniques in the formal semantics of natural language, Elements of Formal Semantics outlines the mathematical principles that underlie linguistic meaning. Making use of a wide range of concrete English examples, the book presents the most useful tools and concepts of formal semantics in an accessible style and includes a variety of practical exercises so that readers can learn to utilise these tools effectively. For readers with an elementary background in set theory and linguistics or with an interest in mathematical modelling, this fascinating study is an ideal introduction to natural language semantics. Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beauty and elegance of the mathematical study of meaning.
