Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.
作者简介
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Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Edit...
Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
目录
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Preface ix
1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 1
2 Executing the Fregean Program 13
3 Semantics and Syntax 43
4 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 61
5 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 86
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Preface ix
1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 1
2 Executing the Fregean Program 13
3 Semantics and Syntax 43
4 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 61
5 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 86
6 Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type 131
7 Quantification and Grammar 178
8 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement 209
9 Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis 239
10 Syntactic and Semantic Binding 260
11 E-Type Anaphora 277
12 First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics 299
Index 313
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原文摘录
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Why have linguists been interested in classifying determiner meanings according to such mathematical properties? Is this just a formal game, or does it throw some light on the workings of natural language? Modern research within the generalized quantifier tradition25 has shown that some of those mathematical properties may help formulate constraints for possible determiner meanings. Keenan and Stavi, for example, have proposed that all natural language determiners are conservative. In order to see what a non-conservative determiner would look like, imagine that English "only" was a determiner rather than an adverb. The non-equivalence of "only children cry" and "only children are children that cry" would now establish that "only" is a determiner that is not conservative. Conservativity, th... (查看原文)
correctly characterizes the conditions under which a sentence of the form both α β is true, but it fails to distinguish the conditions under which it is false from those where it has no truth-value. (查看原文)
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2 有用 Bruce 2014-10-30 23:38:35
学了一学期，终于在回国之后北外蹭课时才大概搞懂这本书的起源其实在罗素和Frege. 外行看热闹时期总是在想：不就一句话吗有必要尼玛搞这么复杂！？
0 有用 maolu 2013-10-26 23:22:28
越看越虐，依旧待你如初恋
3 有用 三十岁还智能犯 2022-01-18 00:14:28
没有读完，但在可预见的未来我应该不会再碰这本书了哈哈哈。可能我到底还是没有入门语义学？因为我觉得这些符号论证都是在知道论证结果的基础上的论证……于是我就还不大明白这些符号论证有什么用途？
0 有用 苦一 2021-02-06 15:06:35
一刷先跳过练习，准备二刷，绝好的教材
1 有用 Li 2015-01-21 18:48:06
好看哦~~~不过不涉及内涵语义学~~~