Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers

Barbara H. Partee

ISBN 10: 1405109351 / ISBN 13: 9781405109352

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2004

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Title: Compositionality in Formal Semantics: ...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Publication Date: 2004

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Synopsis:

Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee’s papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.

• Brings together, in one volume, influential but difficult to find papers by one of the most important researchers in formal semantics.
• Includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her research and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.
• Discusses critical themes in semantic theory.

About the Author:

Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and is the author of several landmark essays in formal semantics. She has written and edited numerous books, including Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (edited with Paul Portner, Blackwell, 2002), Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), and Montague Grammar (edited, 1976).