Semantics with assignment variables

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Semantics with assignment variables

Alex Silk

Cambridge University Press, 2021

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-262) and indexes

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This pioneering study combines insights from philosophy and linguistics to develop a novel framework for theorizing about linguistic meaning and the role of context in interpretation. A key innovation is to introduce explicit representations of context - assignment variables - in the syntax and semantics of natural language. The proposed theory systematizes a spectrum of 'shifting' phenomena in which the context relevant for interpreting certain expressions depends on features of the linguistic environment. Central applications include local and non-local contextual dependencies with quantifiers, attitude ascriptions, conditionals, questions, and relativization. The result is an innovative philosophically informed compositional semantics compatible with the truth-conditional paradigm. At the forefront of contemporary interdisciplinary research into meaning and communication, Semantics with Assignment Variables is essential reading for researchers and students in a diverse range of fields.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. Standardizing Quantification
  • 4. Attitude Ascriptions
  • Part II: 5. Relative Causes (I)
  • 6. Quantifiers
  • 7. Noun Phases
  • Part III: 8. Conditionals
  • 9. Interrogatives
  • 10. Taking Stock.

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