What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals Of Formal Semantics - Rilegato

Portner, Paul

 
9781405109178: What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals Of Formal Semantics
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ISBN 10: 1405109173 ISBN 13: 9781405109178
Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2004

Sinossi

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works.

  • Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
  • Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
  • Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning

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Informazioni sull?autore

Paul H. Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (with Barbara H. Partee, Blackwell, 2002) as well as the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface.

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What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. The book explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory in an intuitive, engaging manner without relying on formalization or getting bogged down in technical skills. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works.

By combining foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena, What is Meaning? provides readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of human language.

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Editore
Blackwell Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1405109173
ISBN 13 
9781405109178
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
235
Contatto del produttore
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9781405109185: What is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics

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ISBN 10:  1405109181 ISBN 13:  9781405109185
Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
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