Review article
Formal Analysis of Meaning in Natural Languages
Ljiljana Šarić
Abstract
Broadly, the subject of this paper is the relation between logic and linguistics. More narrowly, it concentrates on formal semantics. The first part of the text discusses the topics and methods of formal semantics, and the second part the history of formal semantics. Formal semantic analysis has not been widely known and applied in our research community, and formal methods have been applied extremely rarely in linguistic analyses. This is why it is useful to point out the significant achievements of formal semantics. This inspiring interdisciplinary field of research has been successfully connecting research in linguistics, logic and philosophy since the early 1970s.
Keywords
Formal semantics; natural language; language of logic; meaning representation; truth-conditional semantics; model theory
Hrčak ID:
4023
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2006.
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