This book introduces the essential principles and techniques of formal semantics. In formal semantics, structure is treated as the essential ingredient in the creation of sentence meaning from individual word meaning. This approach synthesizes the traditions of logical language analysis with the scientific findings of contemporary empirical linguistics and introduces new ways to understand language meaning. Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beauty and elegance of the mathematical study of meaning. It contains examples and exercises. It offers an accessible style that is aimed at students developing knowledge of formal semantics. It can be applied to logic, computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.

About the Author
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.


Book Information
ISBN 9780748640430
Author Yoad Winter
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press