Semantics in Generative Grammar [Paperback]

Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.Preface.

1. Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program.

2. Executing the Fregean Program.

3. Semantics and Syntax.

4. More of English: Non-verbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions.

5. Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding.

6. Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type.

7. Quantification and Grammar.

8. Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement.

9. Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis.

10. Syntactic and Semantic Binding.

11. E-Type Anaphora.

12. First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics.

Index.

The reader gets the immediate impression that they are being invited to contribute to real work, which is inspiring. The style is easy to read and the exposition of many difficult and confusing topics is very clear. Semantics in Generative Grammer is really an advanced introduction, and is a good example of how advanced-level texts should be organized...essential reading Jennifer Spenader, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

This elegant and thorough text will take the reader through many of the advances in linguistic semantics during the past 25 years of generative grammar. It is a fine achievement by two of the most prominent researchers, and teachers, of the subject. James Higginbotham, University of Oxford

This book shows that natural language semantics has reached its maturity. A careful and enlightening discussion guides the reader through the intricacies of argument structure, quantification, and binding, some of the very central topilS