Quantifiers in language and logic:
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1. Verfasser: Peters, Stanley 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Clarendon Press 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-520) and index
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 inferential role
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
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ISBN:0191516236
9780191516238
9780199291250

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