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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Part I: Situation Theory
1. Universes and Parameters
2. Situations as Mathematical Abstractions
3. Oracles in Situation Semantics
4. Many Sorted Universes, SRDs, and Injective Sums
5. A Theory of Situations
Part II: Logical Applications
6. Pierce on Truth Partiality
7. Information and Architecture
8. Doxie Paradox: A Situational Solution
9. CLP(AFA): Coinductive Semantics of Horn Clauses with Compact Constraints
10. Inferring in a Situation about Situations
11. Situation-Theoretic Aspects of Databases
12. Physical Situations and Information Flow
Part III: Linguistic Applications
13. Persistence and Structural Determination
14. Negation in Situation Semantics and Discourse Representation Theory
15. The Absorption Principle and E-Type Anaphora
16. Questions without Answers, Wh-Phrases without Scope: A Semantics for Direct Wh-Questions and their Responses
17. Reducing Complexity of Constraint-Based Grammars
18. Perspectivity and the Japanese Reflexive 'zibun'
19. A Formalization of Metaphor Understanding in Situation Semantics
20. Relational Semantics and Scope Ambiguity
21. Parameters: Dependence and Absorption
22. A Strictly Incremental Approach to Japanese Grammar
23. Probing the Iroquoian Perspective: Towards a Situated Inquiry of Linguistic Relativity
Part IV: Visual Information
24. Visualization and Situations
25. A Situation-Theoretic Account of Valid Reasoning with Venn Diagrams
26. Reasoning with Words, Pictures, and Calculi: Computation Versus Justification
Name Index
Subject Index
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