Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory

by Richard K. Larson and Gabriel Segal

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory- Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262621002
• ISBN13: 9780262621007
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher