Quantifiers and Cognition Logical and Computational Perspectives - Jakub Szymanik Gebunden

This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic ver sion was developed in the 1980s at the interface of linguistics mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume advances in classic generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics this volume adds a computational component the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics philosophy cognitive science logic AI and computer science.