Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee’s papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.
- Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics.
- Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her research and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.
- Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix
1 Reflections of a Formal Semanticist 1
2 Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns 26
3 Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns in English 50
4 Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English with Michael Bennett 59
5 Bound Variables and Other Anaphors 110
6 Anaphora and Semantic Structure with Emmon Bach 122
7 Compositionality 153
8 Appendix B Genitives – A case study 182
9 Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be 190
10 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles 203
11 The Airport Squib: Any, Almost, and superlatives 231
12 Many Quantifiers 241
13 Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts 259
14 Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences 282
15 Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives with Vladimir Borschev 292
Index 316
About the author
Barbara H. Partee 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 Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (edited with Paul Portner, Blackwell, 2002), Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), and Montague Grammar (edited, 1976).
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