Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics

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Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics is written by Emmon Bach and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0887067727 (ISBN 10) and 9780887067723 (ISBN 13).

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential part of the work in theoretical linguistics over the last decade. The author examines the model structure of Montague’s theory and then presents elaborations on this basic model that have been of particular importance in the last few years: generalized quantifiers, the introduction of more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar ‘smaller’ worldlike entities. Nothing is presupposed about knowledge of the mathematical and logical tools used in formal semantics, and Bach presents the informal with a minimum of formalism.