Quantifiers in language and logic /

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Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English, they include such expressions as no, some, all, both many. This book presents the interdisciplinary exploration of how they work, their syntax, semantics, and inferent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peters, Stanley, 1941-
Otros Autores: Westerståhl, Dag, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers.
Language and logic.
Semantics.
Semantics
Quantificateurs (Linguistique)
Langage et logique.
Sémantique.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers
Language and logic
Kwantificatie (taalkunde)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief history of quantification
  • The emergernce of generalized quanitifiers in modern logic
  • Type [1] quantifiers of natural and logical languages
  • Type [1, 1] quantifiers of natural language
  • Monotone quantifiers
  • Symmetry and other relational properties of type [1, 1] quantifiers
  • Possessive quantifiers
  • Exceptive quantifiers
  • Which quantifiers are logical?
  • Some polyadic quantifiers of natural language
  • The concept of expressiveness
  • Formalization : expressibility, definability, compositionality
  • Definability and undefinability in logical languages : tools for the monadic case
  • Applications to monadic definability
  • EF-tools for polyadic quantifiers.

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