Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential part of the work in theoretical linguistics over the last decade. The author examines the model structure of Montague's theory and then presents elaborations on this basic model that have been of particular importance in the last few years: generalized quantifiers, the introduction of more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar 'smaller' worldlike entities. Nothing is presupposed about knowledge of the mathematical and logical tools used in formal semantics, and Bach presents the informal with a minimum of formalism.

About the author

Emmon Bach is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Product details

• Authors: Emmon Bach
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.1989
• EAN: 9780887067716
• ISBN: 978-0-88706-771-6
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Suny Series in Linguistics; Suny Series in Linguistics; Suny Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics