Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics - Yoad Winter
The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language (Current Studies in Linguistics)
KORTE INHOUD
An investigation of the logical flexibility principles needed for a formal semantic account of coordination, plurality, and scope in natural language. Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory of central linguistic phenomena involving coordination, plurality, and scope. The proposed theory makes use of the standard Boolean interpretation of conjunction, a choice-function account of indefinites, and a novel semantics of plurals that is not based on the distributive/collective distinction. The key to unifying these mechanisms is a version of Montagovian semantics that is augmented by flexibility principles: semantic operations that have no counterpart in phonology. This is the first book to cover these areas in a way that is both linguistically comprehensive and formally explicit. On one hand, it addre...
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2001, hardcover with dustjacket, sticker residue on dustjacket, good copy [Auteur: Winter, Yoad (Utrecht University)] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: MIT Press Ltd] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics / The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language]
