Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Theory

Kristina Liefke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-30780-2 (ISBN)

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This Element gives an introduction to the emerging discipline of natural language ontology. This is an area at the interface of semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language that is concerned with which kinds of objects are assumed by our best semantic theories.

This Element gives an introduction to the emerging discipline of natural language ontology. Natural language ontology is an area at the interface of semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language that is concerned with which kinds of objects are assumed by our best semantic theories. The Element reviews different strategies for identifying a language's ontological commitments. It observes that, while languages share a large number of their ontological commitments (such as to individuals, properties, events, and kinds), they differ in other commitments (for example, to degrees). The Element closes by relating different language and theory-specific ontologies, and by pointing out the merits and challenges of identifying inter-category relations within a single ontology.

1. Introduction; 2. Identifying Semantic Commitments; 3. Montague's Semantic Ontology; 4. Larger Semantic Ontologies; 5. Relating Different Ontologies; 6. Conclusion: Finding the perfect ontology?; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Semantics
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-30780-0 / 1009307800
ISBN-13	978-1-009-30780-2 / 9781009307802
Zustand	Neuware