Structures for Semantics
Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are too...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One: Logic and Set Theory
- 1.1. First Order Logic
- 1.2. Second Order Logic
- 1.3. First Order Theories
- 1.4. Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory
- Two: Partial Orders
- 2.1. Universal Algebra
- 2.2. Partial Orders and Equivalence Relations
- 2.3. Chains and Linear Orders
- Three: Semantics with Partial Orders
- 3.1. Instant Tense Logic
- 3.2. Algebraic Semantics, Functional Completeness and Expressibility
- 3.3. Some Linguistic Considerations Concerning Instants
- 3.4. Information Structures
- 3.5. Partial Information and Vagueness
- Four: Constructions with Partial Orders
- 4.1. Period Structures
- 4.2. Event Structures
- Five: Intervals, Events and Change
- 5.1. Interval Semantics
- 5.2. The Logic of Change in Interval Semantics
- 5.3. The Moment of Change
- 5.4. Supervaluations
- 5.5. Kamp’s Logic of Change
- Six: Lattices
- 6.1. Basic Concepts
- 6.2. Universal Algebra
- 6.3. Filters and Ideals
- Seven: Semantics with Lattices
- 7.1. Boolean Types
- 7.2. Plurals
- 7.3. Mass Nouns
- Answers To Exercises
- References