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Contents |
10 |
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Contributors |
14 |
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I. Introduction |
16 |
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1. Preliminaries |
18 |
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2. Linguistics and Psychology |
24 |
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3. Linguistics and Logic |
37 |
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4. Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning |
84 |
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5. Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories |
107 |
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6. Semantics and Context |
116 |
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7. Conclusion |
122 |
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8. Appendix |
126 |
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II. Background |
146 |
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9. The Principle of Semantic Compositionality |
148 |
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10. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory |
172 |
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III. Approaches |
204 |
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11. General Semantics |
206 |
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12. Truth and Meaning |
237 |
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13. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation |
249 |
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14. Dynamic Predicate Logic |
278 |
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15. Situations and Attitudes |
320 |
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16. What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It? |
337 |
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17. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration |
361 |
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IV. Topics |
382 |
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18. The Generative Lexicon |
384 |
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19. Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns |
409 |
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20. Reference and Proper Names |
439 |
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21. Pronouns |
450 |
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22. Pronouns and Bound Variables |
471 |
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23. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language |
497 |
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24. The Tenses of Verbs |
541 |
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25. Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English |
549 |
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26. Two Theories about Adjectives |
556 |
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27. Prepositions and Points of View |
578 |
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28. On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs |
608 |
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29. A Semantic Theory of Adverbs |
620 |
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30. Adverbs of Quantification |
641 |
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31. Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language |
651 |
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32. A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination |
674 |
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33. The Meaning of Connectives |
677 |
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34. Interrogatives |
702 |
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35. Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics |
725 |
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36. The Logical Form of Action Sentences |
750 |
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V. Context Dependency |
762 |
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37. Demonstratives |
764 |
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38. Truth and Demonstratives |
814 |
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39. Scorekeeping in a Language Game |
818 |
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40. Explicature and Semantics |
832 |
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41. Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness “in Isolation,” and Ellipsis |
861 |
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Bibliography |
882 |
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Index |
914 |
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A |
914 |
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B |
915 |
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C |
916 |
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D |
919 |
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E |
921 |
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F |
922 |
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G |
922 |
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H |
923 |
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I |
924 |
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J |
925 |
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K |
925 |
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L |
925 |
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M |
927 |
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N |
928 |
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O |
929 |
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P |
929 |
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Q |
931 |
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R |
931 |
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S |
932 |
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T |
934 |
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U |
935 |
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V |
936 |
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W |
936 |
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Y |
936 |
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Z |
936 |
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