Formal Semantics :The Essential Readings ( Linguistics: The Essential Readings )

Publication subTitle :The Essential Readings

Publication series :Linguistics: The Essential Readings

Author: Paul H. Portner  

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9780470758182

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780631215417

Subject: H030 Semantics, Pragmatics

Language: ENG

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

Chapter

Contents

pp.:  1 – 9

Acknowledgments

pp.:  9 – 11

Introduction

pp.:  11 – 13

3 Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language

pp.:  47 – 87

4 The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach

pp.:  87 – 139

5 Assertion

pp.:  139 – 159

6 Scorekeeping in a Language Game

pp.:  159 – 174

7 Adverbs of Quantification

pp.:  174 – 190

8 A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation

pp.:  190 – 201

9 File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness

pp.:  201 – 235

10 On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions

pp.:  235 – 261

11 Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English “Imperfective” Progressive

pp.:  261 – 273

12 The Notional Category of Modality

pp.:  273 – 301

13 The Algebra of Events

pp.:  301 – 336

14 Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity

pp.:  336 – 346

15 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles

pp.:  346 – 369

16 Syntax and Semantics of Questions

pp.:  369 – 394

17 Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives

pp.:  394 – 433

18 On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items

pp.:  433 – 469

Index

pp.:  469 – 483

LastPages

pp.:  483 – 498

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