Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar. It also contains work on categorial grammar and its application to natural-language semantics. Series: Language, Speech and Communication. Num Pages: 598 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 178 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1112. . 1998. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Type-Logical Semantics
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262531496
ISBN 13: 9780262531498
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar. It also contains a great deal of original work on categorial grammar and its application to natural-language semantics. The author chose the type-logical categorial grammar as his grammatical basis because of its broad syntactic coverage and its strong linkage of syntax and semantics. Although its basic orientation is linguistic, the book should also be of interest to logicians and computer scientists seeking connections between logical systems and natural language.

The book, which stepwise develops successively more powerful logical and grammatical systems, covers an unusually broad range of material. Topics covered include higher-order logic, applicative categorial grammar, the Lambek calculus, coordination and unbounded dependencies, quantifiers and scope, plurals, pronouns and dependency, modal logic, intensionality, and tense and aspect. The book contains more mathematical development than is usually found in texts on natural language; an appendix includes the basic mathematical concepts used throughout the book.

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Bob Carpenter is Research Scientist in the Multimedia Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, . Previously he was Associate Professor in the Computational Linguistics Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

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