10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Properties, Types and Meaning

View All Editions (4)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Properties, Types and Meaning Synopsis

This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com- puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (of ten in isolation from one another). Our intent was to boost debate and exchange of ideas on these fundamental issues at a time of rapid change in semantics and cognitive science. The papers published in this work have evolved substantially since their original presentation at the conference. Given their scope, we thought it convenient to divide the work into two volumes. The first deals primarily with logical and philosophical foundations, the second with more empirical semantic issues. While there is a common set of issues tying the two volumes together, they are both self-contained and can be read independently of one another. Two of the papers in the present collection (van Benthem in volume 1 and Chierchia in volume II) were not actually read at the conference. They are nevertheless included here for their direct relevance to the topics of the volumes. Regrettably, some of the papers that were presented (Feferman, Klein, and Plotkin) could not be included in the present work due to timing problems. We nevertheless thank the authors for their contribu- tion in terms of ideas and participation in the debate.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781556080708
Publication date:
Author: G Chierchia, Barbara BH Partee, R Turner
Publisher: Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 307 pages
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Genres: Semiotics / semiology
Philosophy: logic
Computational and corpus linguistics

Frequently asked questions