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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.
| ISBN | 0631215425 | | Pages | 496 | | ISBN13 | 9780631215424
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 806 | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishers | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Linguistics: The Essential Readings | | Publication date | 16 Sep 2002 | | Height (mm) | 243 | | Library of Congress | 2003267383 | | Width (mm) | 169 | | DEWEY | 401.43 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction by Paul Portner and Barbara H. Partee | | 1 | | 1 | | The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English by Richard Montague | | 17 | | 2 | | A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural by Greg N. Carlson | | 35 | | 3 | | Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper | | 75 | | 4 | | The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach by Godehard Link | | 127 | | 5 | | Assertion by Robert C. Stalnaker | | 147 | | 6 | | Scorekeeping in a Language Game by David Lewis | | 162 | | 7 | | Adverbs of Quantification by David Lewis | | 178 | | 8 | | A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation by Hans Kamp | | 189 | | 9 | | File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness by Irene Heim | | 223 | | 10 | | On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions by Irene Heim | | 249 | | 11 | | Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English "Imperfective" Progressive by David R. Dowty | | 261 | | 12 | | The Notional Category of Modality by Angelika Kratzer | | 289 | | 13 | | The Algebra of Events by Emmon Bach | | 324 | | 14 | | Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity by Barbara H. Partee and Mats Rooth | | 334 | | 15 | | Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles by Barbara H. Partee | | 357 | | 16 | | Syntax and Semantics of Questions by Lauri Karttunen | | 382 | | 17 | | Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives by Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof | | 421 | | 18 | | On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items by William A. Ladusaw | | 457 | | | | Index | | 471 |
"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University <!--end--> "Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this astonishing development; it should be essential reading for linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University  Be the first to write a customer review
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