Partee, Barbara Hall

Compositionality in formal semantics : selected papers of Barbara Partee / Barbara H. Partee - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004 - xi, 331 p. ; 25 cm. - Explorations in semantics .

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Reflections of a formal semanticist -- 2. Opacity, coreference, and pronouns -- 3. Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English -- 4. Toward the logic of tense and aspect in English with Michael Bennett -- 5. Bound variables and other anaphors -- 6. Anaphora and semantic structure with Emmon Bach -- 7. Compositionality -- 8. Appendix B. Genitives, a case study -- 9. Ambiguous pseudoclefts with unambiguous be -- 10. Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles -- 11. The airport squib: any, almost, and superlatives -- 12. Many quantifiers -- 13. Binding implicit variables in quantified contexts -- 14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences -- 15. Some puzzles of predicate possessives with Vladimir Borschev

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