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Author : Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Release : 2003
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Semantics: Generalized quantifiers and scope by : Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Download or read book Semantics: Generalized quantifiers and scope written by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Szabolcsi
Release : 2010-01-17
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 58X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quantification by : Anna Szabolcsi
Download or read book Quantification written by Anna Szabolcsi. This book was released on 2010-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It paints a vivid picture of generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explains how the discovery of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of quantification, and how the study of the internal composition of quantifiers has become central in recent years. It presents different approaches to the same problems, and links modern logic and formal semantics to advances in generative syntax. A unique feature of the book is that it systematically brings cross-linguistic data to bear on the theoretical issues, covering French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Telugu (Dravidian), and Shupamem (Grassfield Bantu) and points to formal semantic literature involving quantification in around thirty languages.
Author : Stanley Peters
Release : 2006-04-27
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quantifiers in Language and Logic by : Stanley Peters
Download or read book Quantifiers in Language and Logic written by Stanley Peters. This book was released on 2006-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role.Quantifiers in Language and Logic is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basicknowledge of linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
Author : Edward Keenan
Release : 2012-03-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language by : Edward Keenan
Download or read book Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language written by Edward Keenan. This book was released on 2012-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike.
Author : Denis Paperno
Release : 2017-06-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II by : Denis Paperno
Download or read book Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II written by Denis Paperno. This book was released on 2017-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status and endangerment level. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and sixteen spoken languages from Africa, Australia, Papua, the Americas, and different parts of Asia. The articles respond to a questionnaire the editors constructed to enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. They offer comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounds, exception phrases, etc.), and several more specific issues such as quantifier scope ambiguities, floating quantifiers, and binary (type 2) quantifiers. The book is intended for semanticists, logicians interested in quantification in natural language, and general linguists as articles are meant to be descriptive and theory independent. The book continues and expands the coverage of the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012) by the same editors, and extends the earlier work in Matthewson (2008), Gil et al. (2013) and Bach et al (1995).
