E-book
Quantifiers in language and logic
Record details
- ISBN: 0199291268
- ISBN: 9780199291267
- ISBN: 6610870195
- ISBN: 9786610870196
- ISBN: 0191700592
- ISBN: 9780191700590
- ISBN: 0191516236
- ISBN: 9780191516238
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 528)
remote - Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-520) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A brief history of quantification -- The emergernce of generalized quanitifiers in modern logic -- Type [1] quantifiers of natural and logical languages -- Type [1, 1] quantifiers of natural language -- Monotone quantifiers -- Symmetry and other relational properties of type [1, 1] quantifiers -- Possessive quantifiers -- Exceptive quantifiers -- Which quantifiers are logical? -- Some polyadic quantifiers of natural language -- The concept of expressiveness -- Formalization : expressibility, definability, compositionality -- Definability and undefinability in logical languages : tools for the monadic case -- Applications to monadic definability -- EF-tools for polyadic quantifiers. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers Language and logic Semantics |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
