What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics by Portner, Paul H.

What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405109185)

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What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics by Portner, Paul H.

What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics

$51.95
What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics by Portner, Paul H.

What Is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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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


Author: Paul H. Portner
ISBN-10: 1405109181
ISBN-13: 9781405109185
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.54w x 0.74d
By Paul H. Portner
By Paul H. Portner
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Paul H. Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (with Barbara H. Partee, Blackwell, 2002) as well as the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface.

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