文档介绍：ALGEBRAIC
IN
PHILOSOPHY
CSLI
Lecture Notes
No. 74
ALGEBRAIC
SEMANTICS IN
LANGUAGE AND
PHILOSOPHY
GODEHARD LINK
PUBLICATIONS]
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
STANFORD. CALIFORNIA
Copyright © 1998
CSLI Publications
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States
02 01 00 99 98 54321
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Link, Godehard.
Algebraic semantics in language and philosophy / Godehard Link.
p. cm. —(CSLI lecture notes ; no. 74)
Collection of 14 essays, seven of which have been previously published.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents: The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms — Plural — Hydras :
on the logic of relative clause constructions with multiple heads — Generalized
quantifiers and plurals — Je drei Apfel = Three apples each : quantification
and the German je — First-order axioms for the logic of plurality — Ten years
of research on plurals : where do we stand? — Algebraic semantics for natural
language — Quantity and number — The French Revolution—a philosophical
event? — Algebraic semantics of event structures — The ontology of
individuals and events — The philosophy of plurality — Mereology,
second-order logic, and set theory — Appendix : a chapter in lattice theory.
ISBN 1-57586-091-0 (alk. paper). — ISBN 1-57586-090-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Grammar, Comparative and general—Number. 2. Grammar, Comparative
and general—Quantifiers. 3. Semantics (Philosophy) 4. Language and logic. 5.
Language and languages—Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series.
1997
415—dc21 97-46523
CIP
oo The acid-free paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of
the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of
Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI -1984.
CSLI was founded early in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University