Peters, Stanley, 1941-

Quantifiers in language and logic / Stanley Peters, Dag Westerståhl. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xix, 528 ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-520) and index.

A brief history of quantification -- The emergernce of generalized quanitifiers in modern logic -- Type [1] quantifiers of natural and logical languages -- Type [1, 1] quantifiers of natural language -- Monotone quantifiers -- Symmetry and other relational properties of type [1, 1] quantifiers -- Possessive quantifiers -- Exceptive quantifiers -- Which quantifiers are logical? -- Some polyadic quantifiers of natural language -- The concept of expressiveness -- Formalization : expressibility, definability, compositionality -- Definability and undefinability in logical languages : tools for the monadic case -- Applications to monadic definability -- EF-tools for polyadic quantifiers.

9780199291250 019929125X (hbk.)

2006285166


Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers.
Language and logic.
Semantics.

P299.Q3 / P48 2006

425 / P481