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Structures for Semantics

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Fred Landman

    1. Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 45)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Logic and Set Theory

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 1-69

  3. Partial Orders

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 70-120

  4. Semantics with Partial Orders

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 121-170

  5. Constructions with Partial Orders

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 171-196

  6. Intervals, Events and Change

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 197-233

  7. Lattices

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 234-283

  8. Semantics with Lattices

    • Fred Landman
    Pages 284-324

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 325-371
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About this book

Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica­ tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in my view, very often the essential insight in a diagnosis of what is going on in a certain semantic phenomenon takes place at the informal level. It is very easy, however, to be misled into thinking that a certain informal insight provides a satisfying analysis of a certain problem; it will often turn out that there is a fundamental unclarity about what the informal insight actually is. Formalization helps to sharpen those insights and put them to the test.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University, USA

    Fred Landman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Structures for Semantics

  • Authors: Fred Landman

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3212-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1239-0Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1240-6Published: 31 October 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3212-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 371

  • Topics: Semantics, Logic

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