Descriptions and Beyond [Paperback]

Marga Reimer and Anne Bezuidenhout present a collection of brand-new essays on important topics at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics. Written by a stellar line-up of contributors drawn from both disciplines, the papers will likewise attract a wide readership of professionals and students from either side.

Part I: Incomplete Descriptions
1. Descriptions and Situations,Francois Recanati
2. An Abuse of Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions,Ernie Lepore
3. This, That, and the Other,Stephen Neale
Part II: The Referential/Attributive Distinction
4. Descriptions: Points of Reference,Kent Bach
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,Nathan Salmon
6. Descriptive Indexicals and Indexical Descriptions,Geoffrey Nunberg
7. The Case for Referential Descriptions,Michael Devitt
Part III: Presupposition and Truth-Value Gaps
8. Would you Believe It? The King of France is Back! (Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions),Kai von Fintel
9. Descriptions, Linguistic Topic/Comment and Negative Existentials,Jay Atlas
Part IV: Representation of Definites and Indefinites in Semantic Theory
10. Referring Descriptions,Mark Sainsbury
11. The Vernacular and the Omniscient Observer of History,Joseph Almog
12. On a Unitary Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions,Peter Ludlow and Gabriel Segal
Part V: Anaphoric Pronouns and Descriptions, Indefinites and Dynamic Semantics/Syntax
13. Indefinites and Anaphoric Independence: A Case for Dynamic Semantics and Pragmatics?,Richard Breheny
14. Grounding Dynamic Semantics,Paul Dekker
15. Pronouns as Definites,Craige Roberts
16. Anaphoric Definite Descriptions,Alice ter Meulen
17. Indefinites and Scope Choice,Ruth l#/