Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's Ptq

by David R. Dowty

Book Overview

The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the rigorously formalized syntactic and semantic framework for the analysis of natural languages developed by Richard Montague and his associates, a framework in which truth and denotation with respect to a model are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027710090
• ISBN13: 9789027710093
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"