This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades.
focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language
proposes a theory that offers a promising framework for developing a computational semantic system sufficiently expressive to capture the properties of natural language meaning while remaining computationally tractable
written by two leading researchers and of interest to students and researchers in formal semantics, computational linguistics, logic, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of language
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"The book is a must reading for any semanticist who has ever asked herself what intensions actually are." The Linguist List
“Fox and Lappin present a new solution to one of the long-standing issues in formal semantics: how to distinguish logically equivalent from semantically equivalent propositions. This is a valuable contribution to the foundations of formal semantics of natural language.” Stephen G. Pulman, Oxford University
“This is an excellent addition to the literature on the foundations of natural language semantics. The logical issues are carefully and insightfully addressed and much advanced material is brought together for the first time. Semanticists cannot afford not to read it.” Raymond Turner, University of Essex
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This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades. It focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language. The theory proposed offers a promising framework for developing a computational semantic system that is sufficiently expressive to capture the properties of natural language meaning while remaining computationally tractable.
Written by two leading researchers in the field, Foundations of Intensional Semantics will be of interest to students and researchers in formal semantics, computational linguistics, logic, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of language.
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possible scope readings, downward correctness, intensional identity, term representable, tableau rules, intensional theory, cardinality quantifiers, semantic representation language, underspecified representations, comprehension types, general function spaces, donkey anaphora, natural language semantics, donkey sentences, separation types, type judgements, computational semantics, intensional semantics, extensional equivalence, intensional logic, core relation, polymorphic types, meaning postulates, generalized quantifiers, propositional terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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possible scope readings, downward correctness, intensional identity, term representable, tableau rules, intensional theory, cardinality quantifiers, semantic representation language, underspecified representations, comprehension types, general function spaces, donkey anaphora, natural language semantics, donkey sentences, separation types, type judgements, computational semantics, intensional semantics, extensional equivalence, intensional logic, core relation, polymorphic types, meaning postulates, generalized quantifiers, propositional terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frege Structure, Prop Prop New!
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- Handbook of Logic and Language by Johan F. A. K. van van Benthem in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Shalom Lappin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits by Richard C. Jeffrey in Back Matter
- From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Model-theoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) by Hans Kamp in Back Matter
- Introduction to Montague Semantics (Synthese Language Library) by David R. Dowty in Back Matter
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