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Quantification and Syntactic Theory

Quantification and Syntactic Theory

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Book 21

Grammar & StyleLinguisticsGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 9027714843
ISBN13: 9789027714848
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 30 1983
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The format of this book is unusual, especially for a book about linguistics. The book is meant primarily as a research monograph aimed at linguists who have some background in formal semantics, e. g. Montague Grammar. However, I have two other audiences in mind. Linguists who have little or no experience of formal semantics, but who have worked through a basic mathematics for linguists course (e. g. using Wall, 1972, or Partee, 1978), should, perhaps with the help of a sympathetic Montague gramma- rian, be able to discover enough of how I have adapted some of the basic ideas in formal semantics to make the developments that I undertake in the rest of the book accessible. Logicians and computer scientists who know about model theoretic semantics and formal systems should be able to glean enough from Chapters I and II about linguistic concerns and techniques to be able to read the remainder of the book, again possibly with the help of a sympathetic Montague grammarian. However, readers should beware. Chapter II is not meant as a general introduction either to formal semantics or to linguistics and while much of the presentation there is going over ground that is already well covered in the literature, the particular formulation and the emphases are very much oriented to the developments to be undertaken later in the book.

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