32.2426, Books: Semantics with Assignment Variables: Silk

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:41:17
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Semantics with Assignment Variables: Silk

 


Title: Semantics with Assignment Variables 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/semantics-assignment-variables?format=HB 


Author: Alex Silk

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108836012 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108836012 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108836012 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

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.
 



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.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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