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Handbook of Logic and Language
About this book
The logical study of language is becoming more interdisciplinary, playing a role in fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and game theory. This new edition, written by the leading experts in the field, presents an overview of the latest developments at the interface of logic and linguistics as well as a historical perspective. It is divided into three parts covering Frameworks, General Topics and Descriptive Themes.
- Completely revised and updated - includes over 25% new material
- Discusses the interface between logic and language
- Many of the authors are creators or active developers of the theories
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Yes, you can access Handbook of Logic and Language by Johan F.A.K. van Benthem,Alice ter Meulen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Logic in Mathematics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Image
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1. Montague Grammar
- 2. Categorial Type Logics
- 3. Discourse Representation in Context
- 4. Situation Theory
- 5. Situations, Constraints and Channels (Update of Chapter 4)
- 6. GB Theory
- 7. After Government and Binding Theory (Update of Chapter 6)
- 8. Game-Theoretical Semantics
- 9. Game-Theoretical Pragmatics (Update of Chapter 8)
- 10. Compositionality*
- 11. Types
- 12. Dynamics
- 13. Dynamic Epistemic Logic (Update of Chapter 12)
- 14. Partiality
- 15. Formal Learning Theory*
- 16. Computational Language Learning (Update of Chapter 15)
- 17. Non-monotonicity in Linguistics
- 18. Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Interpretation (Update of Chapter 17)
- 19. Generalized Quantifiers in Linguistics and Logic
- 20. On the Learnability of Quantifiers (Update of Chapter 19)
- 21. Temporality
- 22. Tense, Aspect, and Temporal Representation (Update of Chapter 21)
- 23. Plurals and Collectives
- 24. Plural Discourse Reference (Update of Chapter 23)
- 25. Questions
- 26. Questions