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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Portner, Paul
• Partee, Barbara Hall

Titel

Formal semantics : the essential readings [electronic resource]

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• Linguistics : The essential readings

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• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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
• Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.
• English