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What is Meaning?: Fundamentals of Formal Semantics
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0917-8
Hardcover
248 pages
February 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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1. The Fundamental Question.

2. Putting a meaning together from pieces.

3. More about predicates.

4. Modifiers.

5. Complexities of referring expressions.

6. Quantifiers.

7. Extensional vs. intensional contexts.

8. Tense, aspect, and modality.

9. Propositional attitudes.

10. The pragmatics of what's given.

11. The pragmatics of Inference.

12. Formal Semantics Today.

Appendix: Answers to selected exercises.

References.

Index