This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a predicate and argument would produce what the philosopher Gilbert Ryle called a 'category mistake'. It argues for a theory in which words get assigned both an intension and a type. The book develops a rich system of types and investigates its philosophical and formal implications, for example the abandonment of the classic Church analysis of types that has been used by linguists since Montague. The author integrates fascinating and puzzling observations about lexical meaning into a compositional semantic framework. Adjustments in types are a feature of the compositional process and account for various phenomena including coercion and copredication. This book will be of interest to semanticists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists alike.
《對話的邏輯:篇章解讀的動態語義理論》在語言科學與信息科學的研究領域扮演關鍵性的角色。語言學理論尋求對語言現象規律性的揭示與完整的解釋。計算語言學正好提供了驗證與應用這些規律與解釋的大好機會。作為語言學、信息科學乃至于心理學與認知科學結合的交叉學科，計算語言學更提供了語言學基礎研究與應用研究的絕佳界面。事實上，計算語言學與人類語言科技（Human Language Technology，HLT）可
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