Carlo (Hrsg.) Cecchetto

From Grammar to Meaning

ISBN: 978-1-107-27332-0
EAN: 9781107273320
Produktnummer: 16940606
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Plattform: PDF
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In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of human language manif… Mehr