This field was revolutionized in a paper entitled "The Proper Treatment of Quantification" by Richard Montague, whose approach to it can be contrasted with the Discourse Representation Theory, which was independently developed by Hans Kamp and Irene Heim.
This field was revolutionized in a paper entitled "The Proper Treatment of Quantification" by Richard Montague, whose approach to it can be contrasted with the Discourse Representation Theory, which was independently developed by Hans Kamp and Irene Heim. A classic textbook on this topic was co-authored by Heim and Angelika Kratzer. A theory of this subfield based on extensions is inadequate for verbs such as "believe," necessitating the incorporation of intensions. The standard formal approach to this subfield is known as its "truth-conditional" variety, and its "lexical" variety deals with phenomena such as polysemy and synonymy. It can be contrasted with pragmatics, which takes context into account. FTP, name this subfield of linguistics that studies meaning.
This field was revolutionized in a paper entitled "The Proper Treatment of Quantification" by Richard Montague, whose approach to it can be contrasted with the Discourse Representation Theory, which was independently developed by Hans Kamp and Irene Heim.
semantics [prompt on linguistics early]