Introduction to Montague Semantics

Identifying the Targets of the Emotions Expressed in Health Forums

“…Dowty and al. [29] consider that the meaning of an expression depends on the meaning of its components and composition rules. For example, my pain was reduced significantly is a positive expression composed of a negative term pain and a relationship significantly reduced.…”

Compositional Natural Language Semantics using Independence Friendly Logic or Dependence Logic

“…In IF this is possible. Then replacing ∃δ by ∃δ /x yields the desired result: (9) formalizes uniformly continuous and corresponds with (8) .…”

“…Of course, its meaning has to be formed from the meanings of the words from which it is built, but then we have to explain what the meanings of noun phrases are and how these are used to produce the meaning of a basic sentence. The technique is standard (see an introduction like [8] or [10]), and the details are not relevant for the purpose of this article. Roughly speaking, a determiner denotes a generalized quantifier and a noun a set of entities, and the representation of the de re reading of a would be, in an extension of IF with lambda's,…”

Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences

“…(p. 252) In a classical picture, one captures content with truth conditions (as opposed to verification conditions as in Dummett 2000). Dowty et al [1981] argue in favor of a truth-conditional rather proof-theoretic approach on the grounds that:…”

“…One might conclude from this that there is a tension between model-theoretic semantics and the study of the kinds of axiomatic systems we have been discussing (cf. Dowty et al 1981, who speak of "preferring the semantic method to the deductive method"). However, we hope to have shown that the situation is exactly the opposite.…”