E-raamat: Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings [Wiley Online]

Acknowledgments		ix
Introduction		1	(16)
Paul Portner
Barbara H. Partee
The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English		17	(18)
Richard Montague
A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural		35	(40)
Greg N. Carlson
Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language		75	(52)
Jon Barwise
Robin Cooper
The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-Theoretical Approach		127	(20)
Godehard Link
Assertion		147	(15)
Robert C. Stalnaker
Scorekeeping in a Language Game		162	(16)
David Lewis
Adverbs of Quantification		178	(11)
David Lewis
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation		189	(34)
Hans Kamp
File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness		223	(26)
Irene Heim
On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions		249	(12)
Irene Heim
Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English ``Imperfective'' Progressive		261	(28)
David R. Dowty
The Notional Category of Modality		289	(35)
Angelika Kratzer
The Algebra of Events		324	(10)
Emmon Bach
Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity		334	(23)
Barbara H. Partee
Mats Rooth
Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles		357	(25)
Barbara H. Partee
Syntax and Semantics of Questions		382	(39)
Lauri Karttunen
Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives		421	(36)
Jeroen Groenendijk
Martin Stokhof
On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items		457	(14)
William A. Ladusaw
Index		471

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).