Offers an advanced course in logical and mathematical techniques and structures that are used in semantics, in relation to their semantic applications. This book helps students with a background in semantics to develop their skills of formalization and it makes research in semantics accessible. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 719. . 1991. Hardback. . . . .

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Title: Structures for Semantics
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0792312392
ISBN 13: 9780792312390
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica� tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in my view, very often the essential insight in a diagnosis of what is going on in a certain semantic phenomenon takes place at the informal level. It is very easy, however, to be misled into thinking that a certain informal insight provides a satisfying analysis of a certain problem; it will often turn out that there is a fundamental unclarity about what the informal insight actually is. Formalization helps to sharpen those insights and put them to the test.

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