Linguistics Meets Philosophy

Daniel Altshuler is Associate Professor of Semantics at the University of Oxford. His first book, Events, States and Times (2016), won De Gruyter's Emerging Scholar Monograph Competition. Altshuler is an associate editor for Linguistics & Philosophy and serves on the editorial board for Semantics & Pragmatics.

• Linguistics meets philosophy: a historial preface Barbara H. Partee; Introduction Daniel Altshuler; Part I. Reporting and Ascribing: 1. Attitude ascriptions and speech reports Angelika Kratzer; 2. Acquaintance relations Yael Sharvit and Matt Moss; Part II. Describing and Referring: 3. Referential and attributive descriptions Hans Kamp; 4. On definite descriptions can familiarity and uniqueness be distinguished? Elizabeth Coppock; Part III. Narrating and Structuring: 5. On the role of relations and structure in discourse interpretation Julie Hunter and Kate Thompson; 6. Narrative and point of view Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani; Part IV. Locating and Inferring: 7. Present tense Corien Bary; 8. Evidentiality: Unifying nominal and propositional domains Diti Bhadra; Part V. Typologizing and ontologizing: 9. A typology of semantic entities Jessica Rett; 10. Non-finite verbal forms and natural language ontology Gillian Ramchand; Part VI. Determining and questioning: 11. Vagueness & Discourse dynamics Sam Carter; 12. Alternatives Matthijs Westera; Part VII. Arguing and rejecting: 13. The Semantics and Pragmatics of argumentation Carlotta Pavese; 14. Assertion and rejection Julian J. Schlöder; Part VIII. Implying and (pre)supposing: 15. Implicatures Emma Borg; 16. Presuppositions Márta Abrusán; 17. Modals and conditionals Matthew Mandelkern.

'This collection offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of where semantics and pragmatics stand after a half century of transformative collaboration between philosophers and linguists. Leading researchers make a powerful case for continued partnership, highlighting questions where progress requires integrating the two perspectives. The volume is an indispensable resource for linguists and philosophers who aspire to deepen our understanding of meaning and communication.' Zoltán Gendler Szabó, John S. Saden Professor of Philosophy, Yale University