Formal Semantics: A Mathematical Approach to the Analysis of Meaning is a book about how formal semantics analyzes and explains the meaning of language. Formal semantics is one of the most influential semantic theories in the field of semantics. It is characterized by the use of mathematics and logics as a tool for the analysis of meaning. 

Due to this, it may seem to be somewhat difficult for those who are interested in the discipline. The book is an attempt to minimize tough and complex techniques and notions that are used in the field. For this, the author provides a reader-friendly organization and step-by-step procedures for the analysis of meaning in this book.

1. What Is Semantics About?
2. Sense and Reference
3. Semantic Calculation
4. More about Semantic Calculation
5. Semantics of Noun Phrases
6. More about the Semantics of NPs
7. Quantifiers
8. Modality
9. Tense and Aspect

Mean-Young Song is Professor of Department of English Language and Literature at Dongguk University. He received his Ph. D. in linguistics from Georgetown University, and his dissertation was on the Semantics of Tense and Propositional Attitudes. He is the author of numerous semantics papers on counterfactual conditionals, tense, aspect, and modality, and a book A Formal Approach to the Meaning of Tense published in 2005. He is also a co-author of a book tiled English Semantics (written in Korean and published in 2011). His main research areas are on evdientiality, tense, aspect, propositional attitudes, and modality.

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