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 What is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0917-8
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248 pages
February 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
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