|
|
Sold Out
Book Categories |
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Questions about Coordination, Plurality and Scope | 2 | |
| Foundational Assumptions | 6 | |
| Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics | 10 | |
| Flexibility Principles in the Analysis of Coordination, Plurality and Scope | 16 | |
| Technical Background | 20 | |
| The Organization of the Book | 26 | |
| Ch. 2 | Coordination and Collectivity | 29 |
| The Plurality-Coordination Problem | 29 | |
| Previous Proposals | 32 | |
| A Flexible Boolean Approach | 45 | |
| On Predicate Conjunction within the Boolean Framework | 69 | |
| Ch. 3 | The Choice-Function Treatment of Indefinites | 77 |
| The Scopal Semantics of Indefinites: Background | 78 | |
| Indefinites and the Plurality Problem | 90 | |
| The Scope and Distributivity of Numeral Indefinites: A Choice Function Account | 94 | |
| The Formal Semantics of Choice Functions | 109 | |
| On the Conceptual Organization of the Theory | 120 | |
| App.: A Variable-Free Implementation | 127 | |
| Ch. 4 | Predicate-Quantifier Flexibility | 135 |
| Flexibility and Predicative Nominals: The Problem and Previous Proposals | 136 | |
| Category-Shifting Principles | 145 | |
| Syntactic Restrictions on Category Shifting | 161 | |
| Problems of Typing Strategies | 182 | |
| A Toy Grammar | 186 | |
| Ch. 5 | Plural Quantification and the Atom/Set Distinction | 191 |
| The Problem: Plural Quantification and the Semantic Number of Predicates | 192 | |
| Previous Proposals | 194 | |
| Atom Predicates versus Set Predicates | 198 | |
| The Characterization of Semantic Number | 206 | |
| Quantification over Sets | 217 | |
| On Bunch-Denoting Nouns and Atom Constitution | 239 | |
| A Case Study: Every, All, The and Member of | 246 | |
| Ch. 6 | On Distributivity | 251 |
| The Motivation for Distributive Readings | 251 | |
| Atomic Distributivity versus Non-atomic Distributivity | 255 | |
| The Compositional Sources of Q-Distributivity | 260 | |
| Distributivity in the Present Analysis: Recapitulation | 262 | |
| Ch. 7 | Conclusions | 267 |
| Notes | 271 | |
| References | 283 | |
| Index | 291 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Nikita Nikita
reviewed Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37 on July 26, 2011
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics
Whoever had the chutzpah to say this is "Readable" is a criminal and belongs in jail. Interesting? Yes! But also a tremendously dry read. I might be the wrong audience, but it takes a lot of effort to tease out at the end of a chapter 'and your conclusion is...?'
It's a patently huge survey of gender in English, from the codifying of gendered nouns to gendered connotations and denotations. It's incredibly well-researched. And there's some really fascinating examples given -- I wasn't aware that bomb makers referred to successful bombs as "boys" and failed bombs as "girls," or that "oh boy" might be a lingering reference to the devil. Heck, I wouldn't mind reading some of the Old English text examples all day. For every interesting detail, though, there's a stack of quotes, technical terms that make my eyes bleed, and winding complex arguments that leave me none the wiser.
It feels like this book is a big accomplishment, but I'm just happy it's over. She makes a lot of good points (the evolution of gender in words is complex, and a word's gendered history isn't always clear cut). Maybe her most interesting point she brings up is now that English is so standardized now and we have ready access to how it's codified, its growth and history is under new and powerful forces (dictionaries in an of themselves are a force on the meaning of words). I don't know if her final chapter on how to approach reform really provides anything clear cut, but there sure is a lot of food for thought.
Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish List
X
This item is in your Collection
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37
X
This Item is in Your Inventory
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37, Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory , Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37, Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory , Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordination, Plurality, and Scope in Natural Language, Vol. 37 to your collection on WonderClub |
