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Knowledge of meaning : an introduction to semantic theory / Richard Larson and Gabriel Segal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Richard K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Generative grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan programme in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate programme in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-27794-8
- 0-585-03837-6
- OCLC:
- 42330505
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