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Two theories of dynamic semantics

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Logics in AI (JELIA 1990)

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The dynamic view on the semantics of natural language, though stemming already from the seventies, has developed into a widely studied subject in the second half of the eighties. At present, the unification of various dynamic theories constitutes an important issue. In this paper, two theories are compared, viz. update semantics, and dynamic predicate logic. In section 1 a general characterization of the idea of a dynamic semantics for natural language is given which subsumes these two theories. Sections 2 and 3 are devoted to short expositions of each of them. In the final section 4 a comparison is made.

This paper was written while we were engaged on the dyana-project (ebra 3715). We would like to thank Frank Veltman and Roel de Vrijer for their help.

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  1. Department of Philosophy Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Groenendijk & Martin Stokhof

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Groenendijk, J., Stokhof, M. (1991). Two theories of dynamic semantics. In: van Eijck, J. (eds) Logics in AI. JELIA 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 478. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018433

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