Edward L Keenan Livres

Focusing on the logical expressive power of natural language, this work integrates model theory with natural language semantics, exploring boolean structures and generalized quantification while addressing aspects of anaphora. It distinguishes between various categories such as predicates, adjectives, and quantifiers, modeling them using non-isomorphic boolean lattices. The author's extensive research from the 1980s to 2015 provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the complexities of natural language through a logical lens.

Focusing on comparative syntax, this collection features 15 articles by Edward Keenan, showcasing his extensive research in the field. It includes two foundational pieces co-authored with Bernard Comrie, addressing Noun Phrase Accessibility and a universal definition of 'Subject.' The compilation gathers previously scattered works, enhancing accessibility to significant contributions in syntax research. Additionally, it includes a specially prepared psycholinguistic article, enriching the collection's scope and relevance.

Mathematical Structures in Languages introduces a number of mathematical concepts that are of interest to the working linguist. The areas covered include basic set theory and logic, formal languages and automata, trees, partial orders, lattices, Boolean structure, generalized quantifier theory, and linguistic invariants, the last drawing on Edward L. Keenan and Edward Stabler's Bare Grammar: A Study of Language Invariants, also published by CSLI Publications. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, this book contains numerous exercises and will be a valuable resource for courses on mathematical topics in linguistics. The product of many years of teaching, Mathematic Structures in Languages is very much a book to be read and learned from.