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In this selection of published articles in the area of semantics, Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon try to obtain a representative coverage of topics, approaches, and recognized authors; while choosing articles which have made an important contribution to the field and are accessible to students as well as scholars. The volume will have appeal as a textbook for upper level courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics, phonology, and philosophy of language. Semantics: A Reader may serve as a companion to Davis's: Pragmatics: A Reader.
Steven Davis is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre on Values and Ethics at Carleton University and Brendan S. Gillon is Associate Professor uf Linguistics at McGill University.
ContributorsPart I. IntroductionSteven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon: 1: Preliminaries2: Linguistics and Typology3: Linguistics and Logic4: Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning5: Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories6: Semantics and Context7: Conclusion8: AppendixPart II. Background9: Francis Jeffry Pelletier: The Principle of Semantic Compositionality10: Brendan S. Gillon: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and TheoryPart III. Approaches11: David Lewis: General Semantics12: Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning13: Hans Kamp: A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation14: Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof: Dynamic Predicate Logic15: Jon Barwise and John Perry: Situations and Attitudes16: Ray Jackendoff: What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?17: Gilles Fauconnier: Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual IntegrationPart IV. Topics18: James Pustejovsky: The Generative Lexicon19: Brendan S. Gillon: Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns20: Tyler Burge: Reference and Proper Names21: Gareth Evans: Pronouns22: James Higginbotham: Pronouns and Bound Variables23: Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper: Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language24: Hans Reichenbach: The Tenses of Verbs25: Barbara Hall Partee: Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English26: J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp: Two Theories about Adjectives27: Max J. Cresswell: Prepositions and Points of View28: Irena Bellert: On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs29: Richmond H. Thomason and Robert C. Stalnaker: A Semantic Theory of Adverbs30: David Lewis: Adverbs of Quantification31: Roland Posner: Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language32: Gerald Gazdar: A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination33: R. E. (Ray) Jennings: The Means of Connectives34: James Higginbotham: Interrogatives35: Daniel Vanderveken: Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics36: Donald Davidson: The Logical Form of Action SentencesPart V. Context Dependency37: David Kaplan: Demonstratives38: Scott Weinstein: Truth and Demonstratives39: David Lewis: Scorekeeping in a Language Game40: Robyn Carston: Explicature and Semantics41: Robert J. Stainton: Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness "in Isolation," and EllipsisBibliographyIndex
...a fine collection of classic and brand-new papers... The Year's Work in English Studies