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What is a word? In some sense the answer is obvious: words are things dictionaries try to define. This book offers an innovative formal framework for investigating the meanings of words, how word meanings compose together to form sentence meanings and how discourse context can affect the composition...

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Main Author: Asher, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:What is a word? In some sense the answer is obvious: words are things dictionaries try to define. This book offers an innovative formal framework for investigating the meanings of words, how word meanings compose together to form sentence meanings and how discourse context can affect the compositional process.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) and index.
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