Semantics with Assignment Variables
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- July 2021
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781108870078
- 9781108836012
- 9781108799126
- Dimensions:
- (235 x 158 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.54kg, 280 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.4kg, 280 Pages
- Subjects:
- Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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- Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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Book description
This pioneering study combines insights from philosophy and linguistics to develop a novel framework for theorizing about linguistic meaning and the role of context in interpretation. A key innovation is to introduce explicit representations of context - assignment variables - in the syntax and semantics of natural language. The proposed theory systematizes a spectrum of 'shifting' phenomena in which the context relevant for interpreting certain expressions depends on features of the linguistic environment. Central applications include local and non-local contextual dependencies with quantifiers, attitude ascriptions, conditionals, questions, and relativization. The result is an innovative philosophically informed compositional semantics compatible with the truth-conditional paradigm. At the forefront of contemporary interdisciplinary research into meaning and communication, Semantics with Assignment Variables is essential reading for researchers and students in a diverse range of fields.
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