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.

UNINA9910707325303321

Autore

Ketner Keith B. <1921-2019, >

Titolo

Mesozoic and Tertiary rocks near Elko, Nevada : evidence for Jurassic to Eocene folding and low-angle faulting / / by Keith B. Ketner and Andrew G. Alpha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1992

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 13 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; ; 1988-C

Evolution of sedimentary basins--Eastern Great Basin ; ; ch. C.

Disciplina

557.3 s

551.8/7/0979316

Soggetti

Folds (Geology) - Nevada - Elko Region

Geology, Stratigraphic - Mesozoic

Geology, Stratigraphic - Tertiary

Geology - Nevada - Elko Region

Folds (Geology)

Geology

Geology, Stratigraphic

Mesozoic Geologic Period

Tertiary Geologic Period

Nevada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 8, 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 12-13).