Introduction; 1. Basic notions; 2. Types and model structure; 3. Boolean operations; 4. Generalized quantiers; 5. Beyond truth values: de dicto/de re ambiguities.
Yoad Winter is Associate Professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - and a faculty member at the Department of Modern Languages at Utrecht University.
Elements of Formal Semantics has several notable assets: it is
formally careful and deliberate, as thorough as any logic textbook;
it has a lot of varied and well-thought-out exercises (including
practice exercises with solutions); a Conclusions chapter
containing references on a number of phenomena (adjectives,
definiteness, plurality, tense and aspect) students can extend the
formal foundation to; and, at the end of each chapter, a Further
Reading section that cites innovative, contemporary research
articles as well as historical sources and other textbooks. As a
result, it is a very versatile book, useful as a primary textbook,
as a secondary textbook for more advanced or formally inclined
students, or as a source of supplementary formal definitions and
exercises.--Jessica Rett, UCLA "Glossa "
One of the major pros of this book is its wealth of exercises, many
of which are supplied with solutions, at the end of each chapter.
Some are technical and others are more advanced, and many of these
are singled out as introducing new notions not addressed in the
text.--Journal of Logic Language and Information "Kjell Johan S�b�,
University of Oslo "
Winter presents the semantics of language in a manner that
practically shows that logic originates in language, and is not
just applied to language. Due to this manner of presentation, the
current book can be treated as a modern continuation of the book by
van Fraassen [Formal Semantics and Logic, 1971]. Therefore, the
current book is and will be interesting to students of logic,
especially undergraduates in mathematical logic, alongside the
students and researchers in linguistics who, probably, were the
book's intended audience.--Ioachim Mihai Drugus "MathSciNet "
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