From Discourse to Logic

Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory

Hans Kamp, U. Reyle (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

717 Seiten

1993
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-1028-0 (ISBN)

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Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach towards natural language semantics which, some thirteen years ago, arose out of attempts to deal with two distinct problems. The first of those was the semantic puzzle that had been brought to contempo rary attention by Geach's notorious "donkey sentences" - sentences like If Pedro owns some donkey, he beats it, in which the anaphoric connection we perceive between the indefinite noun phrase some donkey and the pronoun it may seem to conflict with the existential meaning of the word some. The second problem had to do with tense and aspect. Some languages, for instance French and the other Romance languages, have two morphologically distinct past tenses, a simple past (the French Passe Simple) and a continuous past (the French Imparfait). To articulate precisely what the difference between these tenses is has turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

1.- 0 Preliminaries.- 1 DRT and Predicate Logic.- 2 Quantification and Connectives.- 3 Loose Ends.- 2.- 4 The Plural.- 5 Tense and Aspect.- Table of Construction Rules.- Index of Symbols, Features and Feature Values.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.1993
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 42
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 717 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	0-7923-1028-4 / 0792310284
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-1028-0 / 9780792310280
Zustand	Neuware