Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics, Volume 37: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language

by Yoad Winter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262232189
• ISBN13: 9780262232180
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher