Semantics with assignment variables
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Semantics with assignment variables
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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