Part I. Introduction
Steven Davis and Brendan S. Gillon
1. Preliminaries
2. Linguistics and Typology
3. Linguistics and Logic
4. Theories of Reference and Theories of Meaning
5. Internalist and Externalist Semantic Theories
6. Semantics and Context
7. Conclusion
8. Appendix
Part II. Background
9. The Principle of Semantic Compositionality, Francis Jeffry Pelletier
10. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, Deixis, and Vagueness: Evidence and Theory, Brendan S. Gillon
Part III. Approaches
11. General Semantics, David Lewis
12. Truth and Meaning, Donald Davidson
13. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation, Hans Kamp
14. Dynamic Predicate Logic, Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof
15. Situations and Attitudes, Jon Barwise and John Perry
16. What Is a Concept, That a Person May Grasp It?, Ray Jackendoff
17. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, Gilles Fauconnier
Part IV. Topics
18. The Generative Lexicon, James Pustejovsky
19. Towards a Common Semantics for English Count and Mass Nouns, Brendan S. Gillon
20. Reference and Proper Names, Tyler Burge
21. Pronouns, Gareth Evans
22. Pronouns and Bound Variables, James Higginbotham
23. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language, Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper
24. The Tenses of Verbs, Hans Reichenbach
25. Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English, Barbara Hall Partee
26. Two Theories about Adjectives, J. A. W. (Hans) Kamp
27. Prepositions and Points of View, Max J. Cresswell
28. On Semantic and Distributional Properties of Sentential Adverbs, Irena Bellert
29. A Semantic Theory of Adverbs, Richmond H. Thomason and Robert C. Stalnaker
30. Adverbs of Quantification, David Lewis
31. Semantics and Pragmatics of Sentence Connectives in Natural Language, Roland Posner
32. A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination, Gerald Gazdar
33. The Means of Connectives, R. E. (Ray) Jennings
34. Interrogatives, James Higginbotham
35. Success, Satisfaction, and Truth in the Logic of Speech Acts and Formal Semantics, Daniel Vanderveken
36. The Logical Form of Action Sentences, Donald Davidson
Part V. Context Dependency
37. Demonstratives, David Kaplan
38. Truth and Demonstratives, Scott Weinstein
39. Scorekeeping in a Language Game, David Lewis
40. Explicature and Semantics, Robyn Carston
41. Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness ""in Isolation,"" and Ellipsis, Robert J. StaintonBibliography
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