Partee Compositionality in Formal Semantics

Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75129-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Reihe: Explorations in Semantics

Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection ofBarbara Partee's papers that have been influential in thefield but are not readily available and includes a new introductoryessay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field ofsemantics have developed over the past 35 years.
* * Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult tofind papers by one of the most important researchers in formalsemantics.
* Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects onhow her research and the field of semantics have developed over thepast 35 years.
* Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Partee, Barbara H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
1. Reflections of a Formal Semanticist.
2. Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns.
3. Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns inEnglish.
4. Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English (with MichaelBennett).
5. Bound Variables and Other Anaphors.
6. Anaphora and Semantic Structure (with Emmon Bach).
7. Compositionality.
8. Appendix B. Genitives - A case study.
9. Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be.
10. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles.
11. The Airport Squib: Any, Almost, andsuperlatives.
12. Many Quantifiers.
13. Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts.
14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences.
15. Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives (with VladimirBorschev).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and is the author of several landmark essays in formal semantics. She has written and edited numerous books, including Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (edited with Paul Portner, Blackwell, 2002), Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), and Montague Grammar (edited, 1976).