Meaning and Grammar, second edition: An Introduction to Semantics - Brossura

Chierchia, Gennaro; Mcconnell-Ginet, Sally

 
9780262531641: Meaning and Grammar, second edition: An Introduction to Semantics
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ISBN 10: 026253164X ISBN 13: 9780262531641
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2000

Sinossi

This self-contained introduction to natural language semanticsaddresses the major theoretical questions in the field.

This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification and binding, intensionality and tense, and so on. To set their approach in a broader perspective, the authors also explore the interaction of meaning with context and use (the semantics-pragmatics interface) and address some of the foundational questions, especially in connection with cognition in general. They also introduce a few of the most accessible and interesting ideas from recent research to give the reader a bit of the flavor of current work in semantics. The organization of this new edition is modular; after the introductory chapters, the remaining material can be covered in flexible order. The book presupposes no background in formal logic (an appendix introduces the basic notions of set theory) and only a minimal acquaintance with linguistics. This edition includes a substantial amount of completely new material and has been not only updated but redesigned throughout to enhance its user-friendliness.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jean-Jacques Laffont was Professor of Economics at theUniversité des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse and the InstitutUniversitaire de France and Director of the Institut d'EconomieIndustrielle.

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Editore
MIT Press
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
026253164X
ISBN 13 
9780262531641
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
592
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9780262032698: Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics

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ISBN 10:  0262032694 ISBN 13:  9780262032698
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2000
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