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March 2000
7 x 10, 591 pp., 15 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-53164-X
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978-0-262-53164-1

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Meaning and Grammar, 2nd Edition
An Introduction to Semantics
Gennaro Chierchia and Sally McConnell-Ginet

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition


1   The Empirical Domain of Semantics
1   Introduction
2   General Constraints on Semantic Theory
3   Implication Relations
4   More Semantic Relations and Properties
5   Summary

2   Denotation, Truth, and Meaning
1   Introduction
2   Denotation
3   Truth
4   Problems

3   Quantification and Logical Form
1   Introduction
2   Quantification in English
3   Logical Form (If)


4   Speaking, Meaning, and Doing
1   Introduction
2   Expression Meaning and Speaker's Meaning
3   Sentential Force and Discourse Dynamics
4   Speech Acts
5   Conversational Implicature

5   Intensionality
1   Introduction
2   IPC: An Elementary Intensional Logic
3   Some Intensional Constructions in English
4   Problems with Belief Sentences

6   Contexts: Indexicality, Discourse, and Presupposition
1   Introduction
2   Indexicals
3   Presuppositions and Contexts
4   Projecting Presuppositions Recursively

7   Lambda Abstraction
1   An Elementary Introduction to Lambda Abstraction
2   Semantics via Translation
3   VP Disjunction and Conjunction
4   Relative Clauses
5   VP Anaphora
6   Conclusions

8   Word Meaning
1   Introduction
2   Semantic Analysis of Words
3   Modifiers
4   More on Verbal Semantics
5   Semantic Imprecision

9   Generalized Quantifiers
1   The Semantic Value of NPs
2   PCGQ and F4
3   Generalized Conjunction
4   Generalized Quantifiers and Empirical Properties of Language
5   Concluding Remarks


Appendix: Set-Theoretic Notation and Concepts
Notes
References
Index

 
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