Compositionality in Formal Semantics
Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee
Published on 8. May 2008
344 pages
978-0-470-75129-9 (ISBN)
Description
Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection ofBarbara Partee's papers that have been influential in thefield but are not readily available and includes a new introductoryessay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field ofsemantics have developed over the past 35 years.
* * Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult tofind papers by one of the most important researchers in formalsemantics.
* Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects onhow her research and the field of semantics have developed over thepast 35 years.
* Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.
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"Barbara H. Partee is the founding mother of linguistic semanticsas it is practiced today, and this collection of many of herclassic papers shows why she has been so influential. Thecombination of theoretical insight with her legendary ability tofind just the right example to make a point is evident throughout.And, as a bonus, the collection begins with a wonderful memoir ofthe turbulent time when semantics was getting its start." RobertStalnaker, MIT "Two different audiences will be delighted with this book: thosewho read the classic papers gathered here when they first appearedand those who did not but are heirs to the rich semantics traditionin formal linguistics that Barbara H. Partee established with thosepapers and with her irresistible enthusiasm for systematicinvestigation of linguistic meaning. Partee's keen semanticinsights, her flair for telling examples, her intellectualgenerosity, her clear-headedness, and her pedagogical talents areevident throughout, not just in the vintage pieces but also in theintroductory essay she's written and in the couple of articlespublished more recently. This volume belongs on every semanticist'sshelf." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell UniversityMore details
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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).
Content
Acknowledgments.
1. Reflections of a Formal Semanticist.
2. Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns.
3. Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns inEnglish.
4. Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English (with MichaelBennett).
5. Bound Variables and Other Anaphors.
6. Anaphora and Semantic Structure (with Emmon Bach).
7. Compositionality.
8. Appendix B. Genitives - A case study.
9. Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be.
10. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles.
11. The Airport Squib: Any, Almost, andsuperlatives.
12. Many Quantifiers.
13. Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts.
14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences.
15. Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives (with VladimirBorschev).
Index.
