Sorts, Ontology, and Metaphor

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Shalom Lappin is Professor of Computational Linguistics at King's College, London. He is editor of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (1996); co-author, with Chris Fox, of Foundations of Intensional Semantics (2005) and, with Alexander Clark, Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus (2010), all published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Syntactic Theories -- Chapter 2: Linguistic Semantics -- Chapter 3: Philosophical Theories -- Chapter 4: Significance Logics: The Goddard-Routley Program -- Chapter 5: Formal Semantics -- Part II -- Chapter 6: A Criterion of Sortal Incorrectness -- Chapter 7: Sortal Incorrectness, Ontological Categories, and Semantic Well-Formedness -- Chapter 8: Sortal Incorrectness and Metaphor -- Part III -- Appendix A: A Theory of Sortal Incorrectness -- Appendix : Extensions of the Theory -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter