What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works.

• Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory
• Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language
• Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning

Author: Paul H. Portner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/04/2005
Series: Fundamentals of Linguistics
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.54w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781405109185