
Title:
Formal semantics in modern type theories
Author:
Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, author.
ISBN:
9781119489252
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Series:
Cognitive science series ; volume 2
Logic linguistics and computer science set. Cognitive science series ; v. 2.
Contents:
Front Matter -- Type Theories and Semantic Studies -- Modern Type Theories -- Formal Semantics in Modern Type Theories -- Advanced Modification -- Copredication and Individuation -- Reasoning and Verifying NL Semantics in Coq -- Advanced Topics -- Appendices. Simple Type Theory C -- Type Constructors -- Prop and Logical Operators in Impredicative MTTs -- And for Coordination -- Formal System LFI -- Rules for Dot-Types -- Coq Codes.
Abstract:
This book studies formal semantics in modern type theories (MTTsemantics). Compared with simple type theory, MTTs have much richer type structures and provide powerful means for adequate semantic constructions. This offers a serious alternative to the traditional settheoretical foundation for linguistic semantics and opens up a new avenue for developing formal semantics that is both model-theoretic and proof-theoretic, which was not available before the development of MTTsemantics. This book provides a reader-friendly and precise description of MTTs and offers a comprehensive introduction to MTT-semantics. It develops several case studies, such as adjectival modification and copredication, to exemplify the attractiveness of using MTTs for the study of linguistic meaning. It also examines existing proof assistant technology based on MTT-semantics for the verification of semantic constructions and reasoning in natural language. Several advanced topics are also briefly studied, including dependent event types, an application of dependent typing to event semantics.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
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Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119489252Copies:
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