Language and equilibrium /
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a syst...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Information, meaning, and language
- 3. Situated choice
- 4. Equilibrium semantics
- 5. Indeterminacy
- 6. Noun phrases
- 7. Conclusion
- Appendix A. The mathematical model
- Appendix B. An exercise
- References
- Index.