Nicholas Asher is Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier and Professor of Philosophy and of Linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse (1993) and co-author of Logics of Conversation (2003) with Alex Lascarides.
Preface
Part I. Foundations: 1. Lexical meaning and predication
2. Types and lexical meaning
3. Previous theories of prediction
Part II. Theory: 4. Type composition logic
5. The complex type
6. Type presuppositions in TCL
Part III. Development: 7. Restricted predication
8. Rethinking coercion
9. Other coercions
10. Syntax and type transformations
11. Modification, coercion and loose talk
12. Generalizations and conclusions
Part IV. Coda: References
Index.
