What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics
Portner, Paul H.
- 出版商: Wiley
- 出版日期: 2005-02-04
- 售價: $4,050
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,848
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 224
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1405109173
- ISBN-13: 9781405109178
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商品描述
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
作者簡介
Paul H. Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (with Barbara H. Partee, Blackwell, 2002) as well as the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface.
