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Gochet, Paul. 2010. Model-theoretic semantics. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 10). John Benjamins. pp. 171–179.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | meaning | model theoretic semantics | quantifier | reference

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay addresses: two different approaches to semantics; the basic notions, scope and limits of Tarski’s semantics; generalized quantifiers; the layers of contexts; and a model-theory for contexts.