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Synopsis
.".no one in recent decades has written a book of this magnitude about the semantics of natural language. Certainly nothing available today matches this volume in depth, precision, and coherence."
-- Zoltan Szabo, in "The Philosophical Review" (January 1997) Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate program in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist.
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About the Author
Richard Larson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at SUNY, Stony Brook. Gabriel Segal is Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College, London.
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- PublisherMit Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 026212193X
- ISBN 13 9780262121934
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages639
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