Formal Semantics - (Linguistics: The Essential Readings) by Paul H Portner & Barbara H Partee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings</i> is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The formal semantics approach to the study of natural language semantics was developed through active dialogue between linguistically minded philosophers and philosophically minded linguists and has become increasingly integrated into theoretical linguistics. <i>Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings</i> is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.<br /> <p>The book covers key central themes and includes both an editorial introduction and extensive references. It is a vital resource for students and scholars of semantics and the philosophy of language.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here. <i>Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University</i> <br /> <p>Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this astonishing development; it should be essential reading for linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in linguistic meaning. <i>Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b><br /> </b> <p><b>Paul Portner</b> 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.<b><br /> </b></p> <p><b>Barbara H. Partee</b> 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 <i>Mathematical Methods in Linguistics</i> (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), <i>Montague Grammar</i> (edited, 1976), and <i>Quantification in Natural Languages</i> (edited, with Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).</p>
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