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Structures for Semantics
Fred Landman
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
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 tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in ... Read more
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 tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792312406
SKU
V9780792312406
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