Formal Semantics of Natural Language

A volume of studies in natural language semantics which brings together work by philosophers, logicians and linguists. The main topics treated are: quantification and reference in natural language; the relations between formal logic, programming languages and natural language; pragmatics and discourse meaning; surface syntax and logical meaning. The volume derives from a colloquium organised in 1973 by the Kings College Research Centre, Cambridge and the papers have been edited for publication by Professor Keenan. It is hoped that the collection will make available some of the best work in this fast-moving field and will stimulate further progress by juxtaposing the different approaches and interests represented here.

Introduction
Quantification in natural language
Adverbs of quantification
Deletion and variable binding
A semantics for superficial and embedded questions in natural language
Sortal quantification
Reference and Cross Reference
Deixis as the source of reference
Referential constraints on lexical items
On generics
Quantifiers, definite descriptions and reference
Intensional Logic and Syntactic Theory
Two theories about adjectives
Partial interpretations
Subcategorisation of adnominal and adverbial modifiers
Should generative semantics be related to intensional logic?
Transformational semantics
Questioning Model Theoretic Semantics
Model theoretic semantics and natural language
Model theory and linguistics Timothy
Pragmatics and Sentences in Context
Pragmatics in natural logic
Changing the context
Conditions of the use of sentences and a semantic representation of topic and focus
Topics, sentence accent, ellipsis: a proposal for their formal treatment
Preference semantics
Semantics and Surface Syntax
Arguments for assigning tense meanings after certain syntactic transformations apply
Towards a formal treatment of the phenomenon of aspect
On the relations between syntax and semantics
Logical expressive power and syntactic variation in natural language
Clausematiness
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