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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Truly interdisciplinary - the authors are prominent in linguistics, philosophy, and logic.
Full Description
Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. 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, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role.
Quantifiers in Language and Logic is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basic knowledge of linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
Contents
I. THE LOGICAL CONCEPTION OF QUANTIFIERS AND QUANTIFICATION; II. QUANTIFIERS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE; III. BEGINNINGS OF A THEORY OF EXPRESSIVENESS, TRANSLATION, AND FORMALIZATION; IV. LOGICAL RESULTS OF EXPRESSIBILITY WITH LINGUISTIC APPLICATIONS
