Introduction to natural language semantics
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- Publisher
- CSLI Publications
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 271
- Series
- Center for the Study of Language and Information - CSLI Lecture Notes 80
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
- What is meaning?; 2. Desiderata for a theory of meaning; 3. Connectives, truth, and truth conditions; 4. Predication and quantification; 5. Scope and anaphora; 6. Limits of first-order predicate logic; 7. Generalized quantifier theory; 8. Worlds and times; Appendix
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