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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145583003321

Autore

Partee Barbara H

Titolo

Compositionality in Formal Semantics [[electronic resource] ] : Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007

ISBN

1-281-32228-8

9786611322281

0-470-75130-4

0-470-75129-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Explorations in Semantics

Disciplina

401.43

401/.43

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Semantics

Language / Linguistics

Semantics - Syntax

Languages & Literatures

Philology & 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 contenuto

Compositionality in Formal Semantics; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Reflections of a Formal Semanticist; 2 Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns; 3 Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English; 4 Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English; 5 Bound Variables and Other Anaphors; 6 Anaphora and Semantic Structure; 7 Compositionality; 8 Genitives: A Case Study; 9 Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be; 10 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles; 11 The Airport Squib: Any Almost, and, Superlatives; 12 Many Quantifiers

13 Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts14 Weak NPs in Have–Sentences; 15 Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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 critic

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698786303321

Titolo

Background information document for updating AP42 section 2.4 for estimating emissions from municipal solid waste landfills [[electronic resource] /] / prepared by Eastern Research Group, Inc. ; EPA project officer Susan Thorneloe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 99 pages : digital, PDF file

Altri autori (Persone)

Thorneloe-HowardSusan Alice

Soggetti

Landfill gases - Environmental aspects - United States

Combustion products - Environmental aspects - United States

Refuse and refuse disposal - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed July 21, 2009).

"September 2008."

"EPA/600/R-08-116."

"Contract no.: EP-C-7-015."

"Work assignment no.: 0-4."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.