Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Paul Portner and Barbara Partee
1 The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
17
Richard Montague
2 A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural 35
Greg Carlson
3 Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language 75
Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper
4 The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms 127
Godehard Link
5 Assertion 147
Robert C Stalnaker
6 Scorekeeping in a Language Game 162
David Lewis
7 Adverbs of Quantification 178
David Lewis
8 A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation 189
Hans Kamp
9 File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of
Definiteness 223
Irene Heim
10 On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions 249
Irene Heim
11 Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English
'Imperfective' Progressive 261
David R Dowty
12 The National Category of Modality 289
Angelika Kratzer
13 The Algebra of Events 324
Emmon Bach
14 Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity 334
Barbara Partee and Mats Rooth
15 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles
357
Barbara H Partee
16 Syntax and Semantics of Questions 382
Lauri Karttunen
17 Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives
421
Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof
18 On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity
Items 457
William A Ladusaw
Index 471
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).
"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers
covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own
definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed
by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all
share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my
copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred
Landman, Tel Aviv University
"Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and
analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness,
ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural
language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very
foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language.
This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this
astonishing development; it should be essential reading for
linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in
linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University
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