Portner / Partee Formal Semantics

The Essential Readings
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75818-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Linguistics: The Essential Readings

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Portner, Paul H.

Partee, Barbara H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Paul Portner and Barbara Partee).
1. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English(Richard Montague).
2. A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural (GregCarlson).
3. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (Jon Barwise andRobin Cooper).
4. The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms (GodehardLink).
5. Assertion (Robert C. Stalnaker).
6. Scorekeeping in a Language Game (David Lewis).
7. Adverbs of Quantification (David Lewis).
8. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation (HansKamp).
9. File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory ofDefiniteness (Irene Heim).
10. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (IreneHeim).
11. Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English'Imperfective' Progressive (David R. Dowty).
12. The National Category of Modality (Angelika Kratzer).
13. The Algebra of Events (Emmon Bach).
14. Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity (Barbara Parteeand Mats Rooth).
15. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles(Barbara H. Partee).
16. Syntax and Semantics of Questions (Lauri Karttunen).
17. Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives(Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof).
18. On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-PolarityItems (William A. Ladusaw).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics andActing Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in CognitiveScience at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerousarticles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, andthe syntax/semantics interface.
Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professorof Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts,Amherst and is the author of several landmark essays in formalsemantics. She has written and edited numerous books, includingMathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulenand Robert Wall, 1990), Montague Grammar (edited, 1976), andQuantification in Natural Languages (edited, with EmmonBach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).