This collection focuses on two interrelated problems which are central to the analysis of meaning: intentionality and the nature of semantic categories. Most of the problems that semantics currently faces call for a characterization of information bearing structures richer than one cast in terms of possible worlds, and for a system of semantic categories more dynamic and flexible than the one stemming from standard type-theory. -- Back cover. Read more...
Abstract:
This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. Two of the papers in the present collection (van Benthem in volume 1 and Chierchia in volume II) were not actually read at the conference. Read more...
Author(s): Gennaro Chierchia, Barbara Hall Partee, Raymond Turner
Series: Studies in linguistics and philosophy 38-39
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 315
City: Boston, Dordrecht
Tags: Semantics -- Congresses.;Semantics (Philosophy) -- Congresses.;Sémantique -- Congrès.;Sémantique (Philosophie) -- Congrès.;Semantics.;Semantics (Philosophy)
Content: v. 1. Foundational issues. Algebraic semantics for intensional logics, I / Peter Aczel ---
Motivating ramified type theory / Richmond Thomason ---
Two issues in the foundations of semantic theory / Raymond Turner ---
Self-reference, attitudes and paradox / Nicholas Asher and Hans Kamp ---
On properties and property theory / Michael Jubien ---
Fine-grained type-free intensionality / George Bealer ---
Semantic type-change and syntactic recognition / Johan Van Benthem ----
v. 2. Semantic issues. Type-shifting rules and the semantics of interrogatives / Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stockhof ---
On the semantic content of the notion of 'thematic role' / David Dowty ---
Structured meanings, thematic rolesand control / Gennaro Chierchia ---
On the semantic composition of English generic sentences / Gregory Carlson ---
Generically speaking, or using discourse representation theory to interpret generics / Lenhart Schubert and Francis J. Pelletier ---
Realism and definiteness / Henk Zeevat.
