文档介绍：FLEXIBILITY PRINCIPLES IN BOOLEAN SEMANTICS
The Interpretation of Coordination,Plurality,and Scope in Natural Language
YOAD WINTER
Flexibility Principles in Boolean
Semantics
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Flexibility Principles in Boolean Yoad Winter
Semantics
The Interpretation of Coordination,
Plurality, and Scope in Natural
Language
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Winter, Yoad.
Flexibility principles in boolean semantics : the interpretation of coordination, plurality,
and scope in natural language / Yoad Winter.
p. cm. —(Current studies in linguistics ; 37)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-262-23218-9 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Grammar, Comparative and general—Coordinate construction. 2. Definiteness
(Linguistics) 3. Semantics. 4. Algebra, Boolean. I. Current studies in linguistics series ; 37.
2002
401.43—dc21 2001044334
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1
Introduction 1 Questions about Coordination, Plurality and
Scope 2
Foundational Assumptions 6
Flexibility Principles in Boolean
Semantics 10
Flexibility Principles in the Analysis of
Coordination, Plurality and Scope 16
Technical Background 20
anization of the Book 26
A Bibliographical Note 27
Chapter 2
Coordination and Collectivity 29 The Plurality-Coordination Problem 29
Previous Proposals 32
A Flexible Boolean Approach 45
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