Including a brief review of classical logic and its major assumptions, this textbook provides a guided tour of modal, many valued and substructural logics. The textbook starts from simple and intuitive concepts, clearly explaining the logics of language for linguistics students who have little previous knowledge of logic or mathematics.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Meaning and Logic
- PART I The Classical Picture
- Chapter 2 Truth Table Logic
- Chapter 3 Predicates
- Chapter 4 Quantifiers
- Chapter 5 Functions: The Lambda Calculus
- PART II Modality
- Chapter 6 Possibility and Necessity
- chapter 7 Worlds and Individuals
- PART III Negation and Partiality
- Chapter 8 Many Valued Logics
- Chapter 9 Situations and Information
- Chapter 10 Intuitionism and Constructive Proof
- PART IV Substructural Logics and Categorial Grammar
- Chapter 11 Relevance, Resources and Order
- Chapter 12 Grammar as Logic
- Chapter 13 Combinators
- Bibliography
- Index
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