What is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics

Portner, Paul H.

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field’s key ideas about how language works.

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2005-02-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781405109185

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Dimensions: 231.1cm x154.9cm

Pages: 256.0