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Overview"This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today, studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s, at the interface of linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume, advances in ""classic"" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics, this volume adds a computational component, the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, logic, AI, and computer science." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jakub SzymanikPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Volume: 96 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783319804149ISBN 10: 3319804146 Pages: 211 Publication Date: 07 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Acknowledgments.- Part I: Procedural Semantics.- 1. Algorithmic Theory of Meaning.- 2. Complexity in Linguistics.- Part II: Simple Quantifiers.- 3. Basic Generalized Quantifier Theory.- 4. Computing Simple Quantifiers.- 5. Cognitive Processing of Quantifiers.- Part III: Complex Quantifiers.- 6. Standard Polyadic Lifts.- 7. Complexity of Polyadic Quantifiers.- 8. Complexity of Quantified Reciprocals.- 9. Branching Quantifiers.- Part IV: Collective Quantifiers.- 10. Complexity of Collective Quantification.- Part V: Perspectives and Conclusions.- Conclusions.- A. Mathematical Machinery.- Bibliography.- Subject Index.ReviewsJakub Szymanik has produced an important new book, Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives ... which returns logic to center stage in an important area of human cognitive studies, where the psychology and neuroscience of language, number and reasoning intersect and interact. ... the book is a valuable source of new results for the theoretician, and a gold mine for the experimenter. (Giosue Baggio and Heming Str�mholt Bremnes, Studia Logica, Vol. 105, 2017) “Jakub Szymanik has produced an important new book, Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives … which returns logic to center stage in an important area of human cognitive studies, where the psychology and neuroscience of language, number and reasoning intersect and interact. … the book is a valuable source of new results for the theoretician, and a gold mine for the experimenter.” (Giosue Baggio and Heming Strømholt Bremnes, Studia Logica, Vol. 105, 2017) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |