Compositionality in Formal Semantics ：Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee ( Explorations in Semantics )

Publication subTitle ：Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee

Publication series ：Explorations in Semantics

Author： Barbara H. Partee  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9780470751299

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781405109352

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405109345

Subject： H030 Semantics, Pragmatics

Language： ENG

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Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee’s papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.


  • Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics.
  • Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her research and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.
  • Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  1 – 7

Acknowledgments

pp.：  7 – 11

1 Reflections of a Formal Semanticist

pp.：  11 – 15

2 Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns

pp.：  15 – 40

3 Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English

pp.：  40 – 64

4 Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English

pp.：  64 – 73

5 Bound Variables and Other Anaphors

pp.：  73 – 124

6 Anaphora and Semantic Structure

pp.：  124 – 136

7 Compositionality

pp.：  136 – 167

8 Genitives: A Case Study

pp.：  167 – 196

9 Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be

pp.：  196 – 204

10 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles

pp.：  204 – 217

11 The Airport Squib: Any Almost, and, Superlatives

pp.：  217 – 245

12 Many Quantifiers

pp.：  245 – 255

13 Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts

pp.：  255 – 273

14 Weak NPs in Have–Sentences

pp.：  273 – 296

15 Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives

pp.：  296 – 306

Index

pp.：  306 – 330

LastPages

pp.：  330 – 346

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