Compositionality in Formal Semantics Selected Papers,9781405109352

Compositionality in Formal Semantics Selected Papers

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Pub. Date: 2004-01-16
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Summary

Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee's papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years. Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics. Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her research and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years. Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.

Author Biography

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 Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (edited with Paul Portner, Blackwell, 2002), Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), and Montague Grammar (edited, 1976).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Reflections of a Formal Semanticist
1(25)
A Personal History within the Development of Formal Semantics
1(12)
General Reflections
13(13)
Appendix: Example Sentences
16(10)
Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns
26(24)
Introduction
26(1)
Referential and Non-referential Noun Phrases
26(5)
Semantic Relations between Pronouns and their Antecedents
31(11)
The Problem of Treating Pronouns Uniformly
42(8)
Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
50(9)
Deictic Pronouns and Tenses
51(2)
Anaphoric Pronouns and Tenses with Specific Antecedents
53(1)
Pronouns and Tenses as Bound Variables
54(2)
Scope Matters
56(1)
Conclusion
57(2)
Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English
59(51)
Michael Bennett
Montague's Analyses of Tenses in PTQ
62(3)
Some Problems with Montague's Treatment of the Tenses
65(4)
A Somewhat Different Approach to Tense and Aspect
69(10)
Temporal Adverbial Phrases
79(11)
Analyses of the Tenses
90(20)
Postscript (1978)
107(3)
Bound Variables and Other Anaphors
110(12)
The Basic Distinction
110(2)
Structurally Ambiguous Pronouns
112(4)
Are There ``Pronouns of Laziness''?
116(3)
Conclusion
119(3)
Anaphora and Semantic Structure
122(31)
Emmon Bach
Pronouns and Variables
122(3)
Principles about Pronouns
125(3)
Coreference and Coindexing
128(2)
Spelling it Out: One Way
130(4)
Comparisons
134(10)
Taking Stock
144(9)
Appendix: A Partial Fragment of English
145(8)
Compositionality
153(29)
The Principle and its Theory-relativity
153(3)
Broad Challenges to Montague's Version of Compositionality
156(3)
Context-dependence, Ambiguity, and Challenges to Local, Deterministic Compositionality
159(8)
Implicit Arguments and Invisible Variables
167(6)
Concluding Remarks
173(9)
Genitives: A Case Study
182(8)
Introduction
182(1)
The Problem
182(2)
A Compositional Analysis
184(1)
Consequences for Adjectives
185(1)
Doubts about the Introduction of TCNs
186(2)
Genitives and Compositionality
188(2)
Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be
190(13)
Introduction
190(1)
The Uniform Be Theory
191(1)
Type-shifting Principles
192(3)
Quantifying into and Relativizing out of Pred NP Position
195(2)
The Pseudoclefts
197(2)
Polymorphic Types and Be
199(1)
Conclusion
200(3)
Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles
203(28)
Introduction
203(1)
Alternative Treatments of NPs: Some Examples
204(2)
Evidence for Multiple Types for NPs
206(2)
Type-shifting: General Principles and Particular Rules
208(11)
The Williams Puzzle
219(4)
English Be
223(1)
Conclusions
224(7)
The Airport Squib: Any, Almost, and Superlatives
231(10)
Preamble: A Word of Explanation
231(1)
Chief Background
231(1)
First New Observation
232(1)
Older Observation
232(1)
Second New Observation
233(2)
Interlude
235(1)
Second New Observation, Continued
236(3)
In Retrospect 2003
239(2)
Many Quantifiers
241(18)
The Puzzle
241(2)
Into the Swamp
243(1)
Three Possible Positions
244(2)
Theoretical Relevance and Evidence for Ambiguity
246(5)
Further Evidence for Ambiguity
251(2)
Towards an Analysis
253(6)
Appendix: Properties of Cardinal and Proportional Many
256(3)
Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts
259(23)
Background and Overview
259(2)
Initial Data
261(5)
Syntactic Constraints
266(1)
Why Not Do It All with Pronouns?
267(4)
Steps toward a Unified Theory of ``Quantified Contexts''
271(6)
Summary
277(5)
Weak NPs in Have-Sentences
282(10)
Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives
292(24)
Vladimir Borschev
Background: Possessives and the Argument-modifier Distinction in NPs
292(7)
Predicate Possessives: A Problem for the ``One Genitive'' Approach?
299(9)
Conclusion and Remaining Puzzles
308(8)
Index 316

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