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I second the frustration of Gillian Russell re: finding original works by Richard Montague.  It’s amazing to me that Formal Philosophy… is so hard to get.  And extremely maddening.  (Although, hey!  I can get an electronic copy of it from Springer for $32.  $32?!  It’s a PDF!  Montague is dead!  Who the hell is that money going to?!  Grr, intellectual property laws in academia.)  Thankfully, the library at Brown had a copy, but I’m still shocked that it’s so near-impossible to get your hands on this book.  I mean, the Lambda Calculus was easier to track down, and I originally had to order it from the publishers in the Netherlands (but yay, Amazon!).

emma :: Feb.05.2007 :: semantics, misc, logic, reading, philosophy, linguistics :: No Comments »

Chris Barker and Polly Jacobson’s book Direct Compositionality is now available for pre-order!  There’s information about the book, links to where to order it and the introductory chapter here at semanticsarchive.net.  I’ve been waiting for this book to be published since before I’d started applying to graduate schools, and I’ve remained excited for its release into the world throughout all that’s happened.  I know this will probably make me seem more like a goofy fan-girl than anything, but YAY! :-D

emma :: Jan.31.2007 :: misc, syntax, semantics, reading, linguistics :: No Comments »

From the introduction to Enderton’s “A Mathematical Introduction to Logic”:

This book does not propose to teach the reader how to think. The word ‘logic’ is sometimes used to refer to remedial thinking, but not by us. The reader already knows how to think. Here are some interesting concepts to think about.

emma :: Jan.31.2007 :: logic, reading, philosophy :: No Comments »

Pierrehumbert, et al. (2000) Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science

for Stefan Benus’ Phonology-Phonetics Interface seminar. Very clear overview of “laboratory phonology”, its goals, methodology and theoretical assumptions.

emma :: Jan.29.2007 :: misc, reading, phonology, phonetics :: No Comments »