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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 961–968

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Model-theoretic semantics

Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.mod2
Article outline
  • 1.The meeting of two different approaches to semantics
  • 2.The basic notions of Tarski's semantics
  • 3.The scope and limits of Tarski's semantics
  • 4.Generalized quantifiers
  • 5.The layers of contexts
  • 6.A model-theory for contexts
  • References
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