McCawley supplements his earlier book—which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic—with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta's work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners.
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McCawley updates and extensively revises his first edition --which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic--with new material on the logic of conditionals sentences, linguistic applications of type theory.
About the Author:
James D. McCawley is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0226556174
- ISBN 13 9780226556178
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages528
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