Language and Logics
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Language and Logics

An Introduction to the Logical Foundations of Language

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language and Logics

An Introduction to the Logical Foundations of Language

About this book

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

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1 Meaning and Logic
  6. PART I The Classical Picture
  7. Chapter 2 Truth Table Logic
  8. Chapter 3 Predicates
  9. Chapter 4 Quantifiers
  10. Chapter 5 Functions: The Lambda Calculus
  11. PART II Modality
  12. Chapter 6 Possibility and Necessity
  13. chapter 7 Worlds and Individuals
  14. PART III Negation and Partiality
  15. Chapter 8 Many Valued Logics
  16. Chapter 9 Situations and Information
  17. Chapter 10 Intuitionism and Constructive Proof
  18. PART IV Substructural Logics and Categorial Grammar
  19. Chapter 11 Relevance, Resources and Order
  20. Chapter 12 Grammar as Logic
  21. Chapter 13 Combinators
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index