Meaning and Partiality

Name: Meaning and Partiality
Brand: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
SKU: 9781881526797
Price: 4000 KES
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ISBN: 9781881526797

This Beautiful Gift Contains t ed.

by Reinhard Muskens

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in Logic, Language & Information

ISBN-10 1881526798

ISBN-13 9781881526797

Edition This Beautiful Gift Contains t ed.

Publisher Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Imprint Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 1st, 1995

Print length 151 Pages

Weight 226 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 23.20 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Philosophy Philosophy

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This volume's appeal lies in the development of a theory of meaning in ordinary language.

Muskens radically simplifies Montague Semantics and generalises the theory by basing it on a partial higher order logic resulting in a theory which combines important aspects of Montague Semantics and Situation Semantics. Richard Montague formulated the revolutionary insight that we can understand the concept of meaning in ordinary languages much in the same way as we understand the semantics of logical languages. Unfortunately, he formalised his idea in an unnecessarily complex way. The present work does away with unnecessary complexities, obtains a streamlined version of the theory, shows how partialising the theory automatically provides us with the most central concepts of Situation Semantics, and offers a simple logical treatment of propositional attitude verbs, perception verbs and proper names.

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