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Quantifiers in language and logic / Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, Stanley, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Language and logic.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (549 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role. - ;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 t
- Contents:
- Contents; 0. Quantification; 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 ON EXPRESSIBILITY WITH LINGUISTIC APPLICATIONS; References; Index; Index of Symbols
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-520) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-87019-2
- 0-19-151623-6
- 1-4294-6984-6
- OCLC:
- 609830337
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