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  • Properties, Types and Meaning

    Volume II: Semantic Issues

    Edited by R. Turner, G. Chierchia, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (of ten in isolation from one another). Our intent was to boost debate and exchange of ideas on these fundamental issues at a ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

    by Eva Hajicová, P. Sgall, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:

    An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

    by Jaakko Hintikka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood ... Read more

    $267.69 CAD

  • Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic

    Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic

    by Pavel Materna, Marie Duží, Bjorn Jespersen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichý. Three books and around 100 papers on Transparent Intensional Logic have till now seen the light of day since the mid-1960s. So why a book of more than 500 pages now? For two reasons. Firstly, Transparent Intensional Logic is a theory without something like a textbook. Now this is not an actual textbook, if a textbook ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Plurality, Conjunction and Events

    by P. Lasersohn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the alternation between `collective' and `distributive' readings of sentences containing plural or conjoined noun phrases, including analyses from both the modern and the premodern literature. It is argued that plural and ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Computational Logic and Human Thinking

    How to Be Artificially Intelligent

    by Robert Kowalski ...
    The practical benefits of computational logic need not be limited to mathematics and computing. As this book shows, ordinary people in their everyday lives can profit from the recent advances that have been developed for artificial intelligence. The book draws upon related developments in various fields from philosophy to psychology and law. It pays special attention to the integration of logic ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

    by Jakub Szymanik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition.Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

    Edited by Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

    Edited by Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD