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Semantics with Assignment Variables
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ISBN10: 1108836011
ISBN13: 9781108836012
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 24 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781108836012
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 24 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This pioneering study combines insights from philosophy and linguistics to develop a novel framework for theorizing about linguistic meaning and the role of context in interpretation. A key innovation is to introduce explicit representations of context - assignment variables - in the syntax and semantics of natural language. The proposed theory systematizes a spectrum of 'shifting' phenomena in which the context relevant for interpreting certain expressions depends on features of the linguistic environment. Central applications include local and non-local contextual dependencies with quantifiers, attitude ascriptions, conditionals, questions, and relativization. The result is an innovative philosophically informed compositional semantics compatible with the truth-conditional paradigm. At the forefront of contemporary interdisciplinary research into meaning and communication, Semantics with Assignment Variables is essential reading for researchers and students in a diverse range of fields.
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