Formal Semantics: The Essential ReadingsISBN: 978-0-631-21541-7
Hardcover
496 pages
October 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers
covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own
definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed
by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all
share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my
copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred
Landman, Tel Aviv University <!--end-->
"Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this astonishing development; it should be essential reading for linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University