Formal semantics in modern type theories / Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, author.

Luo, Zhaohui, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type theory.

Semantics--Mathematical models.

Semantics.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, [2020]

Summary:

This book studies formal semantics in modern type theories (MTTsemantics). Compared with simple type theory, MTTs have much richer type structures and provide powerful means for adequate semantic constructions. This offers a serious alternative to the traditional settheoretical foundation for linguistic semantics and opens up a new avenue for developing formal semantics that is both model-theoretic and proof-theoretic, which was not available before the development of MTTsemantics. This book provides a reader-friendly and precise description of MTTs and offers a comprehensive introduction to MTT-semantics. It develops several case studies, such as adjectival modification and copredication, to exemplify the attractiveness of using MTTs for the study of linguistic meaning. It also examines existing proof assistant technology based on MTT-semantics for the verification of semantic constructions and reasoning in natural language. Several advanced topics are also briefly studied, including dependent event types, an application of dependent typing to event semantics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119489214

1119489210

9781119489252

1119489253

9781119489221

1119489229