Formal Semantics: The Essential ReadingsPaul H. Portner, Barbara H. Partee Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics. |
Contents
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The Essential Readings 1 The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English | 17 |
The Essential Readings 2 A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural | 35 |
The Essential Readings 3 Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language | 75 |
The Essential Readings 4 The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms A Latticetheoretical Approach | 127 |
The Essential Readings 5 Assertion | 147 |
The Essential Readings 6 Scorekeeping in a Language Game | 162 |
The Essential Readings 7 Adverbs of Quantification | 178 |
The Essential Readings 11 Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English Imperfective Progressive | 261 |
The Essential Readings 12 The Notional Category of Modality | 289 |
The Essential Readings 13 The Algebra of Events | 324 |
The Essential Readings 14 Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity | 334 |
The Essential Readings 15 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Typeshifting Principles | 357 |
The Essential Readings 16 Syntax and Semantics of Questions | 382 |
The Essential Readings 17 Typeshifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives | 421 |
The Essential Readings 18 On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negativepolarity Items | 457 |
The Essential Readings 8 A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation | 189 |
The Essential Readings 9 File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness | 223 |
The Essential Readings 10 On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions | 249 |
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Common terms and phrases
adverbs ambiguous analysis anaphoric argument assertion assigns atomic Barbara Partee basic conjunction construction contains context conversational background corresponding defined definition denote determiners discourse referents discussed disjunction domain donkey Dowty embedding English entailment equivalent example existential existential quantifier extensional fact formal semantics function given indefinite plural indirect questions individual intensional logic interpretation interrogatives intuitively John Karttunen kind Lauri Karttunen lexical Linguistics logical form loves Mary keeps mass nouns mass terms meaning modal base model-theoretic Montague grammar Montague's natural language notion noun phrases NP's operator ordering source paper Partee Pedro possible worlds predicate presupposition problem pronouns proper names properties proposed propositions expressed quantifier reading relation respect Richard Montague rule Sat(F scope sentence set of propositions singular structure subset syntactic category tense theory transitive verbs translation truth conditions truth value type-shifting unicorn University utterance variables WH-phrases wh-questions