Quantifiers in language and logic /
Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English, they include such expressions as no, some, all, both many. This book presents the interdisciplinary exploration of how they work, their syntax, semantics, and inferent...
| Основен автор: | Peters, Stanley, 1941- |
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| Други автори: | Westerstahl, Dag, 1946- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192220 |
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Print version::
Quantifiers in language and logic. |
Съдържание:
- A brief history of quantification
- The emergernce of generalized quanitifiers in modern logic
- Type [1] quantifiers of natural and logical languages
- Type [1, 1] quantifiers of natural language
- Monotone quantifiers
- Symmetry and other relational properties of type [1, 1] quantifiers
- Possessive quantifiers
- Exceptive quantifiers
- Which quantifiers are logical?
- Some polyadic quantifiers of natural language
- The concept of expressiveness
- Formalization : expressibility, definability, compositionality
- Definability and undefinability in logical languages : tools for the monadic case
- Applications to monadic definability
- EF-tools for polyadic quantifiers.