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„The book is a must reading for any semanticist who has ever askedherself what intensions actually are.“ The LinguistList
„Fox and Lappin present a new solution to one of thelong-standing issues in formal semantics: how to distinguishlogically equivalent from semantically equivalent propositions. This is a valuable contribution to the foundations of formalsemantics of natural language.“ Stephen G. Pulman, OxfordUniversity
„This is an excellent addition to the literature on thefoundations of natural language semantics. The logical issues arecarefully and insightfully addressed and much advanced material isbrought together for the first time. Semanticists cannot afford notto read it.“ Raymond Turner, University of Essex
This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issuesin the semantics of natural language that have been relativelyneglected in the past few decades.
* focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, thenature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language
* proposes a theory that offers a promising framework fordeveloping a computational semantic system sufficiently expressiveto capture the properties of natural language meaning whileremaining computationally tractable
* written by two leading researchers and of interest to studentsand researchers in formal semantics, computational linguistics, logic, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of language