Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings

Editor(s): Paul Portner, Barbara H. Partee

Published Online: 28 JAN 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631215417

Online ISBN: 9780470758335

DOI: 10.1002/9780470758335

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Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–ix)

    2. Introduction (pages 1–16)

    3. Chapter 1

      The Proper Treatment of Quntification in Ordinary English (pages 17–34)

      Richard Montague

    4. Chapter 2

      A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural (pages 35–74)

      Greg N. Carlson

    5. Chapter 3

      Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (pages 75–126)

      Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper

    6. Chapter 4

      The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach (pages 127–146)

      Godehard Link

    7. Chapter 5

      Assertion (pages 147–161)

      Robert C. Stalnaker

    8. Chapter 6

      Scorekeeping in a Language Game (pages 162–177)

      David Lewis

    9. Chapter 7

      Adverbs of Quantification (pages 178–188)

      David Lewis

    10. Chapter 8

      A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation (pages 189–222)

      Hans Kamp

    11. Chapter 9

      File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness (pages 223–248)

      Irene Heim

    12. Chapter 10

      On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (pages 249–260)

      Irene Heim

    13. Chapter 11

      Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English “Imperfective” progressive (pages 261–288)

      David R. Dowty

    14. Chapter 12

      The Notional Category of Modality (pages 289–323)

      Angelika Kratzer

    15. Chapter 13

      The Algebra of Events (pages 324–333)

      Emmon Bach

    16. Chapter 14

      Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity (pages 334–356)

      Barbara H. Partee and Mats Rooth

    17. Chapter 15

      Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles (pages 357–381)

      Barbara H. Partee

    18. Chapter 16

      Syntax and Semantics of Questions (pages 382–420)

      Lauri Karttunen

    19. Chapter 17

      Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives (pages 421–456)

      Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof

    20. Chapter 18

      On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items (pages 457–470)

      William A. Ladusaw

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      Index (pages 471–486)

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