From Perception to Communication A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning

Robin Cooper, Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher, University of Gothenburg

Robin Cooper is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, where he was previously Professor of Computational Linguistics. He is currently conducting research within the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at Gothenburg. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, and a member of the Academia Europaea.

General preface
Acknowledgements
How to read this book
Introduction
Part I: From perception and action to grammar
1. From perception to intensionality
2. From event perception and action to information states and information exchange
3. Grammar in a theory of action
Part II: Towards a dialogical view of semantics
4. Reference and mental states
5. Frames and descriptions
6. Modality and intensionality without possible worlds
7. Witness-based quantification
8. Type-based underspecification
Conclusion
Appendix: TTR
References
Symbols and notations used
Named types
Name index
Subject index