Quantifiers in language and logic /
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| Author / Creator: | Peters, Stanley, 1941- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xix, 528 : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6009332 |
Table of Contents:
- Quantification
- I. The Logical Conception of Quantifiers and Quantification
- 1. A Brief History of Quantification
- 2. The Emergernce of Generalized Quanitifiers in Modern Logic
- II. Quantifiers of Natural Language
- 3. Type [1] Quantifiers of Natural Language
- 4. Type [1, 1] Quantifiers of Natural Language
- 5. Monotone Quantifiers
- 6. Symmetry and Other Relational Properties of Type [1, 1] Quantifiers
- 7. Possessive Quantifiers
- 8. Exceptive Quantifiers
- 9. Which Quantifiers are Logical?
- 10. Some Polyadic Quantifiers of Natural Language
- III. Beginnings of a Theory of Expressiveness, Translation, and Formalization
- 11. The Concept of Expressivity
- 12. Expressibility, Definability, Compositionality
- IV. Logical Results of Expressibility with Linguistic Applications
- 13. Definability and Undefinability in Logical Languages: Tools for the Monadic Case
- 14. Applications to Monadic Definability
- 15. EF-tools for Polyadic Quantifiers
