Knowledge of Meaning
An Introduction to Semantic Theory
$165.30
- Paperback
662 pages
- Release Date
23 September 1995
Summary
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory- Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262621007 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262621002 |
| Author: | Richard K. Larson, Gabriel M.A. Segal |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 662 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 1995 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 203mm x 38mm |
| Series: | MIT Press |
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”..no one in recent decades has written a book of this magnitude aboutthe semantics of natural language. Certainly nothing available todaymatches this volume in depth, precision, and coherence.” Zoltan Szabo , in The Philosophical Review (January1997)
About The Author
Richard K. Larson
Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.Gabriel M.A. Segal is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London.
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