Product Description: Since the rise of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of ‘compositionality’ has gained traction in linguistics. This book argues that there exist non-compositional languages. Moreover, syntactic structure can be motivated from the requirement of providing a compositional grammar...read more

Product Description: This book studies language(s) and linguistic theories from a mathematical point of view. Starting with ideas already containedin Montague's work, it develops the mathematical foundations of present day linguistics. It equips the reader with all thebackground necessary to understand and evaluate theories as diverse as Montague Grammar, Categorial Grammar, HPSG and GB...read more

Product Description: This book treats modal logic as a theory, with several subtheories, such as completeness theory, correspondence theory, duality theory and transfer theory and is intended as a course in modal logic for students who have had prior contact with modal logic and who wish to study it more deeply...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)