A Reader’s Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining the afterlife of the proposals, and offering a useful bibliography for further study.The chapters were commissioned by the series editors to mark the 100th volume in the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. The target articles are amongst the most widely read and cited papers up to the end of the 20th century, and cover most of the important subfields of formal semantics. The authors are all prominent researchers in the field, making this volume a valuable addition to the literature for researchers, students, and teachers of formal semantics.Chapter 19 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Offers new original contributions to formal semantics, written by distinguished experts

Ana Arregui on Dorith Abusch's 'Sequence of tense and temporal de re'.- Susan Rothstein on Emmon Bach's 'The algebra of events'.- Ed Keenan on Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper's 'Generalized quantifiers and natural language'.- Donka Farkas on Greg Carlson's 'A unified analysis of the English bare plural'.- Veneeta Dayal on Gennaro Chrierchia's 'Reference to kinds across language'.- Paul Pietroski on Donald Davidson's 'The logical form of action sentences'.- Beth Levin on David Dowty's 'Thematic proto-roles and argument selection'.- Thoni Gillies on Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof's 'Dynamic predicate logic'.- Mandy Simons on Irene Heim's 'On the projection problem for presuppositions'.- Simon Charlow on Pauline Jacobson's 'Towards a variable-free semantics'.- Bart Geurts on Hans Kamp's 'A theory of truth and semantic representation'.- Elena Guerzoni on Lauri Karttunen's 'The syntax and semantics of questions'.- Cleo Condoravdi on Angelika Kratzer's 'The notional category of modality'.- Hana Filip on Manfred Krifka's 'Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics'.- Jon Gajewski on William Ladusaw's 'On the notion of affective in the analysis of negative polarity items'.- Mats Rooth on David Lewis's 'Adverbs of quantification'.- 17. Adrian Brasoveanu and Lucas Champollion on Godehard Link's 'The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms'.- Ede Zimmermann on Richard Montague's 'Proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English'.- Yoad Winter on Barbara Partee's 'Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles'.- Fabrizio Cariani on Robert Stalnaker's 'Indicative conditionals'.- Cécile Meier on Arnim von Stechow's 'Comparing Semantic Theories of Comparison'.- Index.