Preface ix
1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 1
2 Executing the Fregean Program 13
3 Semantics and Syntax 43
4 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 61
5 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 86
6 Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type 131
7 Quantification and Grammar 178
8 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement 209
9 Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis 239
10 Syntactic and Semantic Binding 260
11 E-Type Anaphora 277
12 First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics 299
Index 313
Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of
Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika
Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
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