Introduction to natural language semantics /

This introduction examines the semantics of natural languages

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swart, Henriëtte de, 1961-, Swart, Henriëtte de, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [1998], ©1998
Stanford, Calif. : c1998
Stanford, Calif. : [1998]
Series:CSLI lecture notes ; no. 80
CSLI lecture notes no. 80
CSLI lecture notes ; no. 80
CSLI lecture notes no. 80
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What is meaning?
  • 2. Desiderata for a theory of meaning
  • 3. Connectives, truth, and truth conditions
  • 4. Predication and quantification
  • 5. Scope and anaphora
  • 6. Discourse and donkey anaphora
  • 7. Limits of first-order predicate logic
  • 8. Generalized Quantifier theory
  • 9. Worlds and times
  • 1 What is meaning?
  • 2. Desiderata for a theory of meaning
  • 3. Connectives, truth, and truth conditions
  • 4. Predication and quantification
  • 5. Scope and anaphora
  • 6. Discourse and donkey anaphora
  • 7. Limits of first-order predicate logic
  • 8. Generalized Quantifier theory
  • 9. Worlds and times.