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Compositionality in formal semantics : selected papers of Barbara H. Partee / Barbara H. Partee.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Explorations in semanticsPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.Description: xi, 331 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1405109351 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.43 PAR 22
LOC classification:
  • P325 .P37 2004
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Contents:
Acknowledgments. 1. Reflections of a Formal Semanticist. 2. Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns. 3. Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns in English. 4. Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English (with Michael Bennett). 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, and superlatives. 12. Many Quantifiers. 13. Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts. 14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences. 15. Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives (with Vladimir Borschev). Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments. 1. Reflections of a Formal Semanticist. 2. Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns. 3. Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns in English. 4. Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English (with Michael Bennett). 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, and superlatives. 12. Many Quantifiers. 13. Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts. 14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences. 15. Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives (with Vladimir Borschev). Index.

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