ISBN 10: 0631215425

ISBN 13: 9780631215424

Author: Paul 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.

The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural
Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach
Assertion
Scorekeeping in a Language Game
Adverbs of Quantification
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness
On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions
Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English “Imperfective” Progressive
The Notional Category of Modality
The Algebra of Events
Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity
Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles
Syntax and Semantics of Questions
Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives
On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items

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Formal Semantics The Essential Readings 1st Edition by Paul Portner, Barbara Partee 0631215425 9780631215424