1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145688703321

Titolo

Formal semantics [[electronic resource] ] : the essential readings / / edited by Paul Portner and Barbara H. Partee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2002

ISBN

1-281-32128-1

9786611321284

0-470-70155-2

0-470-75833-3

0-470-75818-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (498 p.)

Collana

Linguistics : The essential readings

Altri autori (Persone)

PortnerPaul

ParteeBarbara Hall

Disciplina

401.43

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics

Linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English; 2 A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural; 3 Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language; 4 The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach; 5 Assertion; 6 Scorekeeping in a Language Game; 7 Adverbs of Quantification; 8 A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation; 9 File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness; 10 On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions

11 Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English "Imperfective" Progressive12 The Notional Category of Modality; 13 The Algebra of Events; 14  Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity; 15 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles; 16 Syntax and Semantics of Questions; 17 Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives; 18 On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-



polarity Items; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697060703321

Titolo

Claims [[electronic resource] ] : agreement between the United States of America and Germany signed at Bonn, September 19, 1995, with exchange of notes and supplementary agreement effected by exchange of notes signed at Bonn January 25, 1999

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Dept. of State, , [1999?]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (18 unnumbered pages)

Collana

Treaties and other international acts series ; ; 13019

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Claims

Americans - Germany - Claims

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 15, 2010).