Kornai, Andras: Mathematical Linguistics

摘要

I have read this book with pleasure and the first adjective I have to choose to describe it is "fascinating". The book is very well written, the author has a wide background, not only restricted to mathematics and linguistics, and bits of it are spread along the book in form of original settings, well-motivated examples, interesting proposed exercises and highly elaborated "further reading" sections at the end of each chapter. The presentation, discussion and, in some cases, solution of some paradoxes of natural language are brilliant examples of its interesting content.