Formal Semantics

Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Paul Portner and Barbara Partee).

1. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
(Richard Montague).

2. A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural (Greg
Carlson).

3. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (Jon Barwise and
Robin Cooper).

4. The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms (Godehard
Link).

5. Assertion (Robert C. Stalnaker).

6. Scorekeeping in a Language Game (David Lewis).

7. Adverbs of Quantification (David Lewis).

8. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation (Hans
Kamp).

9. File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of
Definiteness (Irene Heim).

10. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (Irene
Heim).

11. Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English
'Imperfective' Progressive (David R. Dowty).

12. The National Category of Modality (Angelika Kratzer).

13. The Algebra of Events (Emmon Bach).

14. Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity (Barbara Partee
and Mats Rooth).

15. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles
(Barbara H. Partee).

16. Syntax and Semantics of Questions (Lauri Karttunen).

17. Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives
(Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof).

18. On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity
Items (William A. Ladusaw).

Index.

"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers
covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own
definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed
by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all
share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my
copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred
Landman, Tel Aviv University

"Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege
and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the
vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of
natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided
the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural
language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this
astonishing development; it should be essential reading for
linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in
linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University

Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and
Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive
Science at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous
articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and
the syntax/semantics interface.

Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professor
of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst and is the author of several landmark essays in formal
semantics. She has written and edited numerous books, including
Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen
and Robert Wall, 1990), Montague Grammar (edited, 1976), and
Quantification in Natural Languages (edited, with Emmon
Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).

P. H. Portner, Georgetown University; B. H. Partee, University of Massachusetts at Amherst