A Course in Semantics (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Altshuler, Daniel; Parsons, Terence; Schwarzschild, Roger

 
9780262042772: A Course in Semantics (The MIT Press)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262042770 ISBN 13: 9780262042772
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology.

This introductory textbook in linguistic semantics for undergraduates features a unique balance between empirical coverage and formalism on the one hand and development of intuition and methodology on the other. It will equip students to form intuitions about a set of data, explain how well an analysis of the data accords with their intuitions, and extend the analysis or seek an alternative. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required. After mastering the material, students will be able to tackle some of the most difficult questions in the field even if they have never taken a linguistics course before.

After introducing such concepts as truth conditions and compositionality, the book presents a basic symbolic logic with negation, conjunction, and generalized quantifiers, to serve as the basis for translation throughout the book. It then develops a detailed compositional semantics, covering quantification (scope and binding), adverbial modification, relative clauses, event semantics, tense and aspect, as well as pragmatic phenomena, notably deictic pronouns and narrative progression.

A Course in Semantics offers a large and diverse set of exercises, interspersed throughout the text; those labeled “Important practice and looking ahead” prepare students for material to come; those labeled “Thinking about ” invite students to think beyond the content of the book.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Altshuler is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire College.

Terence Parsons is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Roger Schwarzschild is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

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Verlag
The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262042770
ISBN 13 
9780262042772
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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