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Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. 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The book begins with a typology of  abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an  introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation  theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably  work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic  analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in  English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic  semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric  reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits  discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between  elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of  discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative  examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric  reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric  antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT  develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical  difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract  objects.   For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists  interested in natural language applications and discourse,  philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy,  cognitive science and artificial intelligence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52145062936849,"sku":"NLS9780792322429","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780792322429.jpg?v=1757591854"},{"product_id":"logics-of-conversation-book-nicholas-asher-9780521659512","title":"Logics of Conversation","description":"People often mean more than they say. Grammar on its own is typically insufficient for determining the full meaning of an utterance; the assumption that the discourse is coherent or 'makes sense' has an important role to play in determining meaning as well. Logics of Conversation presents a dynamic semantic framework called Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, or SDRT, where this interaction between discourse coherence and discourse interpretation is explored in a logically precise manner. Combining ideas from dynamic semantics, commonsense reasoning and speech act theory, SDRT uses its analysis of rhetorical relations to capture intuitively compelling implicatures. It provides a computable method for constructing these logical forms and is one of the most formally precise and linguistically grounded accounts of discourse interpretation currently available. 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On the broadly syntactic side, there are papers on the logical and computational foundations of context free grammars, pregroup grammars, on the Lambek calculus and on formalizations of aspects of minimalism. There is also a paper on Abstract Categorical Grammar, as well as papers on issues at the syntax\/semantics interface. On the semantic side, the volume's papers address monotonicity reasoning and the semantics of adverbs in type theory, proof theoretical semantics and predicate and argument invariance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52668718317841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668719071505,"sku":"NLS9783662437414","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783662437414.jpg?v=1762285744"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nicholas-asher.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}