Beschreibung:
Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.
The first overview of semantics within generative grammar.
Teaches students the craft of doing semantics.
Written by arguably the two leading figures in the field.
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.
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Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.