Formal Semantics (eBook)

The Essential Readings

Paul H. Portner, Barbara H. Partee (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
496 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-75818-2 (ISBN)

Autor

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).

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Linguistics: The Essential Readings
• Reihe/Serie: Linguistics: The Essential Readings
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Linguistics • Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Semantics • Semantik • Sprachphilosophie • Sprachwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-470-75818-X / 047075818X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-75818-2 / 9780470758182