Logic, Language and Computation

This book is a collection of papers offering a broad account of many interesting topics in the study of Logic, Language and Information. In particular, the collection addresses two important themes: how to handle quantification in natural language, and how to isolate genuine `logics of information'. After the editor's introduction, which presents an overview of the interdisciplinary field, the collection begins with a group of fairly philosophical papers which address current issues in formal semantics from a logical perspective. It then moves on to papers which straddle the border between formal semantics and logic, and finishes with purely logical papers focusing on some non-classical logics. This book will be of interest to those working in logic, philosophy, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence.

The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection of papers on Logic, Language and Computation. One very striking feature of the application of logic to language and to computation is that it requires the combination, the integration and the use of many diverse systems and methodologies - all in the same single application. The papers in this volume will give the reader a glimpse into the problems of this active frontier of logic. The Editors CONTENTS Preface IX 1. S. AKAMA Recent Issues in Logic, Language and Computation 1 2. M. J. CRESSWELL Restricted Quantification 27 3. B. H. SLATER The Epsilon Calculus' Problematic 39 4. K. VON HEUSINGER Definite Descriptions and Choice Functions 61 5. N. ASHER Spatio-Temporal Structure in Text 93 6. Y. NAKAYAMA DRT and Many-Valued Logics 131 7. S. AKAMA On Constructive Modality 143 8. H. W ANSING Displaying as Temporalizing: Sequent Systems for Subintuitionistic Logics 159 9. L. FARINAS DEL CERRO AND V. LUGARDON 179 Quantification and Dependence Logics 10. R. SYLVAN Relevant Conditionals, and Relevant Application Thereof 191 Index 245 Preface This is a collection of papers by distinguished researchers on Logic, Lin guistics, Philosophy and Computer Science. The aim of this book is to address a broad picture of the recent research on related areas. In particular, the contributions focus on natural language semantics and non-classical logics from different viewpoints."

Preface. 1. Recent Issues in Logic, Language and Computation; S. Akama. 2. Restricted Quantification; M.J. Cresswell. 3. The Epsilon Calculus' Problematic; B.H. Slater. 4. Definite Descriptions and Choice Functions; K. von Heusinger. 5. Spatio-Temporal Structure in Text; N. Asher. 6. DRT and Many-Valued Logics; Y. Nakayama. 7. On Constructive Modality; S. Akama. 8. Displaying as Temporalizing: Sequent Systems for Subintuitionistic Logics; H. Wansing. 9. Quantification and Dependence Logics; L. Fariñas del Cerro, V. Lugardon. 10. Relevant Conditionals, and Relevant Application Thereof; R. Sylvan. Index.