Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 983 g
Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 983 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-929125-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role.
Quantifiers in Language and Logic is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basic knowledge of linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
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- Quantification
- I. The Logical Conception of Quantifiers and Quantification
- 1: A Brief History of Quantification
- 2: The Emergence of Generalized Quanitifiers in Modern Logic
- II. Quantifiers of Natural Language
- 3: Type [1] Quantifiers of Natural and Logical Languages
- 4: Type [1, 1] Quantifiers of Natural Language
- 5: Monotone Quantifiers
- 6: Symmetry and Other Relational Properties of Type [1, 1] Quantifiers
- 7: Possessive Quantifiers
- 8: Exceptive Quantifiers
- 9: Which Quantifiers are Logical?
- 10: Some Polyadic Quantifiers of Natural Language
- III. Beginnings of a Theory of Expressiveness, Translation, and Formalization
- 11: The Concept of Expressivity
- 12: Expressibility, Definability, Compositionality
- IV. Logical Results of Expressibility with Linguistic Applications
- 13: Definability and Undefinability in Logical Languages: Tools for the Monadic Case
- 14: Applications to Monadic Definability
- 15: EF-tools for Polyadic Quantifiers
