Quantifiers in Language and Logic - Softcover

Peters, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199291268 ISBN 13: 9780199291267

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Synopsis

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role.

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Review

Review from previous edition This is a high-quality, informative, and authoritative study, offering a clear overview of the denotational semantics of natural language quantifiers, some new results, and a first frontal assault on analysing the expressive power of natural languages. A substantial, intereresting, challenging work. (Edward Keenan, UCLA)

This book gives a comprehensive account of quantifiers in both natural and formal languages, drawing on both linguistics and model theory. It creates a number of paradigms, because nothing so general has been attempted before. Much of the material is new or has never appeared in book form, but the authors have taken enormous care to pitch their exposition at a level that non-specialists can follow. (Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary University of London)

About the Author

Stanley Peters is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. Dag Westerstahl is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Goteborg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199291268
• ISBN 13: 9780199291267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 548