The Ontology of Language: Properties, Individuals and Discourse - Brossura

Fox, Chris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575862344 ISBN 13: 9781575862347

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2000

Riassunto

The book offers contributions to a number of topics in semantics, while at the same time providing an engaging discussion of key foundational issues and of what Property Theory can contribute to them. The book starts from a version of Property Theory which stems out of a combination of the lambda calculus with Aczel's Frege structures (a combination originally developed by Raymond Turner). Fox improves on it and substantially extends it with original applications to plurals and mass nouns, to 'intensional individuals' and to the dynamics of discourse. Some useful appendixes on further extensions and alternatives are added. While being formally highly sophisticated, it manages to give a sense of the elegance and flexibility of the underlying theory. This volume should be of interest to researchers engaged in the cognitive science arena.

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Descrizione del libro

The book offers contributions to a number of topics in semantics, at the same time providing a discussion of key foundational issues and of what Property Theory can contribute to them.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. Property theory; 3. Plurals and mass terms; 4. Roles and guises; 5. Discourse representation; 6. Conclusions; A. Dynamic property theory; B. Dependent types and discourse; C. Semantics of NL in PTD; D. Negation and disjunction in discourse; Bibliography.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575862344
• ISBN 13: 9781575862347
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile