Handbook of Logic and Language

Bentheim, Johan Van ; Meulen, Alice Ter (editors)

ISBN 10: 044481714X / ISBN 13: 9780444817143

Published by North-Holland / The MIT Press, Amsterdam, ., Cambridge, MA, 1997

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First Edition. xxiii, 1247 pages. The FIRST edition of this book (there was also an updated edition printed in 2010). Publisher's cloth with minor bump to front board at base. A great working copy. Hard Cover. Seller Inventory # 20793

Bibliographic Details

Title: Handbook of Logic and Language

Publisher: North-Holland / The MIT Press, Amsterdam, ., Cambridge, MA

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

This Handbook documents the main trends in current research between logic and language, including its broader influence in computer science, linguistic theory and cognitive science.

The history of the combined study of Logic and Linguistics goes back a long way, at least to the work of the scholastic philosophers in the Middle Ages. At the beginning of this century, the subject was revitalized through the pioneering efforts of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Polish philosophical logicians such as Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. Around 1970, the landmark achievements of Richard Montague established a junction between state-of-the-art mathematical logic and generative linguistic theory. Over the subsequent decades, this enterprise of Montague Grammar has flourished and diversified into a number of research programs with empirical and theoretical substance.

This appears to be the first Handbook to bring logic-language interface to the fore. Both aspects of the interaction between logic and language are demonstrated in the book i.e. firstly, how logical systems are designed and modified in response to linguistic needs and secondly, how mathematical theory arises in this process and how it affects subsequent linguistic theory.

The Handbook presents concise, impartial accounts of the topics covered. Where possible, an author and a commentator have cooperated to ensure the proper breadth and technical content of the papers.

The Handbook is self-contained, and individual articles are of the highest quality.

Review:

J. Peregrin
...This handbook is an extremely successful attempt at a state of the art summary of the interdisciplinary field which centers around the intersection of logic and linguistics. ...this makes the book into an indispensable compendium for anyone working with language.

The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics