Abstract
Introduction Part I. Quantification in natural language: 1. Adverbs of quantification David Lewis 2. Deletion and variable binding Barbara Hall Partee 3. A semantics for superficial and embedded questions in natural language R. D. Hull 4. Sortal quantification J. E. J. Altham and Neil W. Tennant Part II. Reference and Cross Reference: 5. Deixis as the source of reference John Lyons 6. Referential constraints on lexical items Pieter Seuren 7. On generics Osten Dahl 8. Quantifiers, definite descriptions and reference Colin Biggs Part III. Intensional Logic and Syntactic Theory: 9. Two theories about adjectives J. A. W. Kamp 10. Partial interpretations Franz Von Kutschera 11. Subcategorisation of adnominal and adverbial modifiers Renate Bartsch 12. Should generative semantics be related to intensional logic? Carl H. Heidrich 13. Transformational semantics Arnim von Strechow Part IV. Questioning Model Theoretic Semantics: 14. Model theoretic semantics and natural language Nicholas Jardine 15. Model theory and linguistics Timothy C. Potts Part V. Pragmatics and Sentences in Context: 16. Pragmatics in natural logic George Lakoff 17. Changing the context Stephen Isard 18. Conditions of the use of sentences and a semantic representation of topic and focus Petr Sgall 19. Topics, sentence accent, ellipsis: a proposal for their formal treatment Theo Vennemann 20. Preference semantics Yorick Wilks Part VI. Semantics and Surface Syntax: 21. Arguments for assigning tense meanings after certain syntactic transformations apply Joseph Emonds 22. Towards a formal treatment of the phenomenon of aspect Catherine Fuchs and Jacques Rouault 23. On the relations between syntax and semantics Maurice Gross 24. Logical expressive power and syntactic variation in natural language Edward L. Keenan 25. Clausematiness John R. Ross.
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