Meaning and Partiality

by Reinhard Muskens

Overview

Muskens radically simplifies Montague Semantics and generalises the theory by basing it on a partial higher order logic resulting in a theory which combines important aspects of Montague Semantics and Situation Semantics. Richard Montague formulated the revolutionary insight that we can understand the concept of meaning in ordinary languages much in the same way as we understand the semantics of logical languages. Unfortunately, he formalised his idea in an unnecessarily complex way. The present work does away with unnecessary complexities, obtains a streamlined version of the theory, shows how partialising the theory automatically provides us with the most central concepts of Situation Semantics, and offers a simple logical treatment of propositional attitude verbs, perception verbs and proper names.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575869803
Publisher:	CSLI
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	Studies in Logic, Language, and Information
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Two type logics 3. The logic IL 4. PTQ revisited 5. Going Partial I: propositional logic and predicate logic 6. Going Partial II: type theory 7. Situations, persistence and weak consequence 8. Propositional attitudes 9. Names Appendix Bibliography Index.