Lexical meaning in context : a web of words / Nicholas Asher.
Asher, Nicholas| Call Number | 401.4 |
| Author | Asher, Nicholas, author. |
| Title | Lexical meaning in context : a web of words / Nicholas Asher. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Summary | This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike. |
| Subject | SEMANTICS. LEXICOLOGY. |
| Multimedia |
Total Ratings:
0
02073nam a22003498i 4500
001
vtls001598795
003
VRT
005
20230127111600.0
006
m|||||o||d||||||||
007
cr||||||||||||
008
230127s2011||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020
$a 9780511793936 (ebook)
020
$z 9781107005396 (hardback)
035
$a (UkCbUP)CR9780511793936
039
9
$y 202301271116 $z santha
040
$a UkCbUP $b eng $e rda $c UkCbUP
050
0
0
$a P325 $b .A776 2011
082
0
4
$a 401.4 $2 22
100
1
$a Asher, Nicholas, $e author.
245
1
0
$a Lexical meaning in context : $b a web of words / $c Nicholas Asher.
264
1
$a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2011.
300
$a 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : $b digital, PDF file(s).
336
$a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337
$a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338
$a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500
$a Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520
$a This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
650
0
$a SEMANTICS.
650
0
$a LEXICOLOGY.
776
0
8
$i Print version: $z 9781107005396
856
4
0
$u https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793936
999
$a VIRTUA
No Reviews to Display
| Summary | This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Subject | SEMANTICS. LEXICOLOGY. |
| Multimedia |