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From Discourse to Logic

Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Hans Kamp

    1. Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Uwe Reyle

    1. Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 42)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-6
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  2. Part 1

    1. Preliminaries

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 7-57

    2. DRT and Predicate Logic

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 59-139

    3. Quantification and Connectives

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 141-232

    4. Loose Ends

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 233-304

  3. Part 2

    1. The Plural

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 305-482

    2. Tense and Aspect

      • Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle
      Pages 483-689

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 691-717
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About this book

Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects, known as Discourse Representation Theory, or DRT. DRT is an approach towards natural language semantics which, some thirteen years ago, arose out of attempts to deal with two distinct problems. The first of those was the semantic puzzle that had been brought to contempo­ rary attention by Geach's notorious "donkey sentences" - sentences like If Pedro owns some donkey, he beats it, in which the anaphoric connection we perceive between the indefinite noun phrase some donkey and the pronoun it may seem to conflict with the existential meaning of the word some. The second problem had to do with tense and aspect. Some languages, for instance French and the other Romance languages, have two morphologically distinct past tenses, a simple past (the French Passe Simple) and a continuous past (the French Imparfait). To articulate precisely what the difference between these tenses is has turned out to be surprisingly difficult.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Discourse to Logic

  • Book Subtitle: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory

  • Authors: Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1616-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1028-0Published: 31 July 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1616-1Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 717

  • Topics: Logic, Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence

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