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Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings

ISBN: 978-0-631-21541-7

October 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

496 pages

Description

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.

About the Author

Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface.

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 Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), Montague Grammar (edited, 1976), and Quantification in Natural Languages (edited, with Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).

Features

  • Gathers together a wide range of seminal readings that reflect the important contributions linguists have made to the study of formal semantics

  • Provides students and researchers in semantics and the philosophy of language with an ideal reference source

  • Includes both an editorial introduction that traces the history of formal semantics and an extensive bibliography