Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 2: Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar

by L. T. F. Gamut

Overview

Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226280882
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/15/1990
Edition description:	1
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

L. T. F. Gamut is a collective pseudonym for J. F. A. K. van Benthem, professor of mathematical logic; J. A. G. Groenendijk, associate professor of philosophy and computational linguistics; D. H. J. de Jongh, associate professor of mathematics and philosophy; M. J. B. Stokhof, associate professor of philosophy and computational linguistics, all at the University of Amsterdam, and H. J. Verkuyl, professor of linguistics at the University of Utrecht.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1. The Origins of Intensional Logic
2. Intensional Propositional Logic
3. Intensional Predicate Logic
4. The Theory of Types and Categorial Grammar
5. The Intensional Theory of Types
6. Montague Grammar
7. Recent Developments
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Bibliographical Notes
References
Index