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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN num: 9780226280851
ISBN number: 0226280853
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 296
Printing Date: December 15, 1990
Publishing house: University Of Chicago Press
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Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.
Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic.
In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.
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I am just wondering why there is not a single review written yet on this excellent book. I have the feeling that this book was only lately translated into English and that it is somehow not in the mainstream of textbooks on logic and semantics.
This book was written by 5 Dutch top scholars and after reading it (and reading other papers by them, mostly the work on questions by Groenendijk & Stokhof) I can have nothing but respect to all of them. These guys are surely miles ahead from everything interesting that happens in the field of logic and semantics in the UK, Germany, or elsewhere in Europe.
Well, the primary goal of the book is to teach you semantics, but for this a long way is worked through, starting from propositional logic, taking occasional excursions into philosophy of language, getting you to intensional logic, categorial grammars, type theory and finally leading you straight into the heart of semantics. This is an encyclopedia of semantics in a nutshell. The approach of the book is neither technical nor linguistic, but philosophical or argumentative. There is not a single sentence in the whole book that will not important for you to know or that is not thought through.
The only disadvantage I can see is that the theory presented somehow does not give you many clues as to how to solve the problems. Your imagination and a previous background can help only, I think. I also doubt that this book will be the best one for American students--there is not much fun and amusement that it can offer.
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