Formal Semantics (eBook, PDF)

The Essential Readings
Redaktion: Portner, Paul H.; Partee, Barbara H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics. Das E-Book Formal Semantics wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Linguistics, Philosophie, Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Semantik, Sprachphilosophie, Sprachwissenschaften

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470758182
• Artikelnr.: 38197509

Autorenporträt

Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface. 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 Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), Montague Grammar (edited, 1976), and Quantification in Natural Languages (edited, with Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

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 (Greg Carlson).
3. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (Jon Barwise and Robin
Cooper).
4. The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms (Godehard Link).
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 (Hans Kamp).
9. File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness (Irene
Heim).
10. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (Irene Heim).
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 Partee and 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-Polarity Items
(William A. Ladusaw).
Index.

Rezensionen

"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great paperscovering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My owndefinition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowedby students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume allshare the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns mycopy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." FredLandman, Tel Aviv University

"Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Fregeand analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome thevagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments ofnatural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition providedthe very foundation for the serious study of meaning in naturallanguage. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to thisastonishing development; it should be essential reading forlinguists and philosophers who are seriously interested inlinguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University