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Dynamic Semantics

Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Book Series (volume 91)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4869-9

ISBN: 978-94-007-4868-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jul 4, 2012

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Chapter 1Introduction

Dekker, Paul J. E.

Pages: 1 –5

[The first, introductory, chapter summarizes two basic features of natural language interpretation. The first, methodological and essentially Fregean, insight is that it is a compositional process; the second, more philosophical, insight is that it is essentially indexical, to borrow a term from...
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Chapter 2Predicate Logic with Anaphora

Dekker, Paul J. E.

Pages: 7 –47

[In the second chapter an extension of first order predicate logic with pronouns is given and extensively discussed. It is shown that it covers by now standard results from Discourse Representation Theory and Dynamic Predicate Logic on the basis of a classical Tarskian satisfaction semantics. The...
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Chapter 3Information Update and Support

Dekker, Paul J. E.

Pages: 49 –83

[In the third chapter the results from the second chapter are lifted to an intensional setting. It is shown that notions of informational content, information update and speaker support can be defined interchangeably, and independently. The chapter ends with a discussion of the contextualist...
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Chapter 4Quantification and Modality

Dekker, Paul J. E.

Pages: 85 –121

[The fourth chapter extends the findings of the previous ones by giving an account of two types of phenomena intensively discussed in the dynamic semantics literature. They concern the representational and dynamic interpretation of generalized quantifiers and epistemic modalities. It is shown...
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Chapter 5Conclusion

Dekker, Paul J. E.

Pages: 123 –123

[The concluding chapter 5 sums up the results.]

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