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Zusatztext This is a welcome and unique addition to the growing selection of textbooks in formal semantics. With just the right mixture of empirical challenge and technical detail, it will work well as a stand-alone text for novice semanticists. At the same time, more advanced students will benefit from this accessible introduction to direct compositionality, and more broadly from the book's lessons in thinking about the foundations and architecture of linguistic theory. Informationen zum Autor Pauline Jacobson is currently Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She has held visiting appointments at Ohio State University and Harvard University, and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research is mainly concerned with constructing formal models of the semantics and syntax of natural language - and in particular on the way that the syntax and the semantics interact. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including Journal of Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, and Linguistics and Philosophy, and she is co-editor, with Chris Barker, of Direct Compositionality (OUP 2007). Klappentext This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface, combining Direct Compositionality with approaches based on Logical Form. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy of language, and other related fields. Zusammenfassung This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface, adopting a Direct Compositionality view while (where appropriate) also presenting a competing view based on Logical Form and comparing the two. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: On using this book PART I Foundational Concepts: Building a Fragment 1: Introduction 2: Semantic Foundations 3: Compositionality, Direct Compositionality, and the Syntax/Semantics Interface 4: Expanding the Fragment: Syntactic Categories and Semantic Types 5: Transitive Verbs: Resolving an Apparent Syntax/Semantics Mismatch 6: Categorial Grammar 7: The "Autonomy of Syntax" 8: Adjectives, Nouns, Determiners, and More 9: Interlude: The Semantics of Variables, and the Lambda Calculus Part II: Enriching the Domain 10: Returning to English: Generalized Quantifiers 11: Ordinary NPs and Type Lifting 12: Generalized Conjunction Part III: Relative Clauses, Scopes, and Binding: Some Theoretical Controversies 13: Relative Clauses: Sketching Two Accounts 14: Generalized Quantifiers in Object Position: Two Approaches 15: The Interpretation of Pronouns: Two Accounts Appendices to Parts I - III: The Full Fragment Part IV: Further Topics 16: Negative Polarity Items, Semantic Strength, and Scalar Implicature Revisited 17: More Binding Phenomena 18: Additional Semantic Dimensions: The Semantics of Focus 19: Intensionality and the Syntax/Semantics Interface References ...
