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This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation. Alongside this approach, the author also presents a competing view that makes use of an intermediate level, Logical Form. She develops parallel treatments of a variety of phenomena from both points of view with detailed comparisons. The book begins with simple and fundamental concepts and gradually builds a more complex fragment, including analyses of more advanced topics such as focus, negative polarity, and a variety of topics centering on pronouns and binding more generally. Exercises are provided throughout, alongside open-ended questions for students to consider. The exercises are interspersed with the text to promote self-discovery of the fundamentals and their applications. The book provides a rigorous foundation in formal analysis and model theoretic semantics and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Compositional Semantics
• Author: Pauline Jacobson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780199677153
• ISBN: 0199677158
• ID: 02616898
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 766 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 172 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 2014

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