Logical Perspectives on Language & Information: Volume 120 (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Condoravdi, Cleo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575862832 ISBN 13: 9781575862835

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2002

Synopsis

Rapid innovations in digital technology deeply influence views on language and information processing. Any new developments raise many questions for researchers, and can help shed new light on old approaches. Logic is a tool that researchers can use to gain insight into investigations of the relation between form and content, the ways that linguistic utterances change information content and the dynamics of information change. This text presents a broad range of logical investigations into language and information processing. Topics covered include: the notion of "reasonable belief" in commonsense reasoning, perpetual reports in natural languages, the logic of creation and modification of objects, the verification of temporal aspects of reactive systems, analysis of scope by combining model theory and situation semantics, and semantic analysis of the information articulation of linguistic statements.

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About the Author

Cleo Condoravdi is professor of linguistics at Stanford University, specializing in natural language semantics and pragmatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575862832
• ISBN 13: 9781575862835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200