The ontology of language : properties, individuals, and discourse /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Center for the Study of Language and Information,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Property Theory. 2.1. Motivation. 2.2. PT: An Axiomatic Property Theory. 2.3. Definitions of Types. 2.4. The Paradoxes as a Category Mistake. 2.5. Internal Definability. 2.6. Model. 2.7. Syntax-Semantics Interface. 2.8. PTQ-like Interpretation. 2.9. Other Approaches
- 3. Plurals and Mass Terms. 3.1. Plurals. 3.2. Mass Terms. 3.3. A Unification. 3.4. A Model of PT with Boolean Terms
- 4. Roles and Guises. 4.1. Intensional Individuals. 4.2. Landman's Formal Theory. 4.3. Roles in PT. 4.4. Property Modifiers. 4.5. Appropriate Guises. 4.6. Semantics with Property Modifiers. 4.7. The Behaviour of Property Modifiers
- 5. Discourse Representation. 5.1. Discourse in Classical Logic. 5.2. Discourse in Property Theory. 5.3. A Sketch of the Basic Theory. 5.4. PT[superscript dt]: PT with Discourse Terms. 5.5. Relative Clauses. 5.6. Summary. 5.7. Consistency of PT[superscript dt]
- 6. Conclusions. 6.1. Properties.
- 6.2. Individuals. 6.3. Discourse. 6.4. The Methodology of Least Commitment. A. Dynamic Property Theory
- B. Dependent Types and Discourse
- C. Semantics of NL in PT[superscript dt]
- D. Negation and Disjunction in Discourse.