Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential part of the work in theoretical linguistics over the last decade. The author examines the model structure of Montague's theory and then presents elaborations on this basic model that have been of particular importance in the last few years: generalized quantifiers, the introduction of more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar 'smaller' worldlike entities. Nothing is presupposed about knowledge of the mathematical and logical tools used in formal semantics, and Bach presents the informal with a minimum of formalism.

Author: Emmon Bach
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 05/22/1989
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.92w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780887067723

About the Author
Emmon Bach is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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