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"For nearly half a century formal semantics has been a prominent area in linguistic theory, developed in a fruitful collaboration among linguists, logicians and philosophers. Formal semantics is sometimes regarded with reluctance (even dreaded) due to its mathematical precision and the apparent complexity of its symbolism. This textbook —the first one of this scope in French— provides a relaxed self-contained introduction to the domain, allowing the reader autonomous progressive study from the basic central concepts to significant innovations that have shaped the domain since Montague’s seminal work. Through its chapters, the book provides acquaintance with elements of scientific methodology generally used in formal semantics. The six chapters, completed with solved exercises, gradually move from basic notions in logic and model-theoretic semantics, to quantification, temporal and modal logic, intensionality, and typed λ-calculus, culminating in compositional semantic analysis at the syntax-semantics interface. This introduction will be supplemented with a second volume that would focus on applications and advances in the field which extend the scope of the formalism.The book is intended for linguistics undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers wishing to improve their skills in formal semantics, as well as for students and researchers of other domains, such as philosophy, logic, or computational science."

Linguistics --- Semantics. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- intensionality --- temporal and modal logic --- syntax-semantics interface --- formal semantics --- logic and model-theoretic semantics --- textbook --- compositional semantic analysis --- λ-calculus

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The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to infinitival clauses by investigating their origin, development and loss in miscellaneous patterns and across different languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Infinitival constructions. --- Syntax. --- Verb. --- Verb --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Infinitival constructions --- Infinitive constructions --- Infinitive clauses --- Infinitive phrases --- Semantics, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Infinitive --- Clauses --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- English language --- Infinitive. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Infinitival Structures. --- Non-finite Clauses. --- Syntax-Semantics Interface.

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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and its syntactic realization to the study of specific grammatical phenomena in a number of typologically diverse languages, including Yucatec Maya, Kabardian, Tagalog, Murik-Kopar, Avatime, Whitesands, Tundra Yukaghir, and various Indo-European languages. The articles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center `The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Avatime. --- Caleb Everett. --- Carlos Periñán-Pascual. --- DFG. --- Dejan Matic. --- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. --- Eunkyung Yi. --- FunGramKB Grammaticon. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Gisa Rauh. --- Hana Filip. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Jean-Pierre König. --- Jeremy Hammond. --- John Peterson. --- Jürgen Bohnemeyer. --- Kabardian Involuntative. --- LD. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Lindsay K. Butler. --- Murik-Kopar. --- Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. --- Noun Phrase Structure. --- Peter Indefrey. --- RRG. --- Ranko Matasovic. --- Ricardo Mairal. --- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. --- SFB 991. --- Saskia van Putten. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Sensory Motor Concepts in Language & Cognition. --- Sonderforschungsbereich 991. --- T. Florian Jaeger. --- Tagalog. --- Tundra Yukaghir. --- Whitesands. --- William A. Foley. --- constructional schemata. --- degree expressions. --- diasystematic approach. --- integrated dislocation. --- left Dislocation. --- lexical representation of verbs. --- linguistic categories. --- linguistic theory. --- lingustic theory. --- multilectalism. --- multilingualism. --- non-integrated dislocation. --- register variation. --- syntactically based relativistic effects. --- syntax-semantics interface. --- syntax. --- verb meaning. --- volition in Grammar. --- yacatec maya.