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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019962903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2002

ISBN

9786611321284

9781281321282

1281321281

9780470701553

0470701552

9780470758335

0470758333

9780470758182

047075818X

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

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.