Contents:
Volume I : Foundational Issues
Part A. Truth and Denotation
1. Gottlob Frege, 'On Sense and Reference', translated by Max Black, The Philosophical Review, 57, 1948, pp.207-230. (Originally published as 'Sinn und Bedeutung', in Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Philosophische Kritik, 100, 1892, pp. 25-50)
2. Bertrand Russell, 'On Denoting', Mind, 14, 1905, pp. 479-493
3. Peter F. Strawson, 'On Referring', Mind, 59, 1950, pp. 320-344
4. Rudolph Carnap, 'Extensions and Intensions', in Meaning and Necessity, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947), pp. 23-32
Part B. Semantics and Grammar
5. Jerrold Katz and Paul Postal, 'The Semantic Component', in An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions, (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1964), pp. 12-29
6. Richard Montague, 'Universal Grammar', Theoria, 36, 1970, pp. 373-398
7. David Lewis, 'General Semantics', Synthese, 22, 1970, pp. 18-67
8. Noam Chomsky, 'Deep Structure, Surface Structure and Semantic Interpretation', in Danny Steinberg and Leon Jakobovits, eds., Semantics. An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), pp. 183-216
9. George Lakoff, 'On Generative Semantics', in Danny Steinberg and Leon Jakobovits, eds., Semantics. An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), pp. 232-252
10. Richard Montague, 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English', in Jaako Hintikka, J. Moravcsik, and Patrick Suppes, eds., Approaches to Natural Languages Proceedings of the 1970 Stanford Workshop on Grammar and Semantics, (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1973), pp. 221-247
11. Barbara Partee, 'Some Transformational Extensions of Montague Grammar', Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2, 1973, pp. 509-534
12. Robert May, 'Logical Form as a Level of Linguistic Representation', in Logical Form: Its Structure and Derivation, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985), pp. 1-30
13. Richard Larson and Gabriel Segal, 'Knowledge of Meaning and Theories of Truth', in Knowledge of Meaning, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995), pp. 25-42
14. Carlos Otero, 'Language, meaning and interpretation: Chomsky against the philosophers', 2002, pp. 1-26. (An adapted excerpt of a paper that is to appear elsewhere.)
Volume II: Generalized Quantifiers and Scope
15. Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper, 'Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language', Linguistics and Philosophy, 4, 1981, pp.159-219
16. William Ladusaw, 'Semantic Constraints on the English Partitive Construction', in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 1, (Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1982), pp. 231-242
17. Johan Van Benthem, 'Determiners and Logic', Linguistics and Philosophy, 6, 1983, pp. 437-464
18. Franciska De Jong and Henk Verkuyl, 'Generalized Quantifiers: The Properness of their Strength', in Johan van Benthem, and Alice ter Meulen, eds., Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language, (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984), pp. 21-43
19. Dag Westerståhl, 'Determiners and Context Sets', in Johan van Benthem, and Alice ter Meulen, eds., Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language, (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984), pp. 45-71
20. Barbara Partee, 'Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles', in Jeroen Groenendijk, Dick de Jongh, and Martin Stockhof, eds., Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers, (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1987), pp. 115?143
21. Johan Van Benthem, 'Polyadic Quantifiers', Linguistics and Philosophy, 12, 1989, pp. 437-464
22. Edward Keenan, 'Semantic Case Theory', in Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof, and Frank Veltman, eds., Proceedings of the Sixth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1987), pp. 109-132
23. Gila Sher, 'Ways of Branching Quantifiers', Linguistics and Philosophy, 14, 1990, pp. 393-422
24. Donka Farkas, 'Quantifier Scope and Syntactic Islands', in Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), 7, 1981, pp. 59-66
25. Fengh-Hsi Liu, 'Scope Dependency' in Scope and Specificity, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998), pp. 9-15
26. Dorit Ben-Shalom, 'Object Wide Scope and Semantic Trees', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 3, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1993), pp. 19?37
27. Anna Szabolcsi, 'Strategies for Scope Taking', in Ways of Scope Taking, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), pp. 109-154
Volume III : Noun Phrase Classes
Part A. Indefiniteness and Definiteness
28. David Lewis, 'Adverbs of Quantification', in Edward Keenan, ed., Formal Semantics of Natural Language, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp. 3-15
29. Lauri Karttunen, 'Discourse Referents', in James McCawley, ed., Syntax and Semantics, 7, (New York: Academic Press, 1976), pp. 363-385
30. Gary Milsark, 'Towards an Explanation of Certain Peculiarities in the Existential Construction in English', Linguistic Analysis, 3, 1977, pp. 1-29
31. Janet Fodor and Ivan Sag, 'Referential and Quantificational Indefinites', Linguistics and Philosophy, 5, 1982, pp. 355-398
32. Irene Heim, 'File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness', in Rainer Bäuerle, Christoph Schwarze, and Arnim von Stechow, eds., Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language, (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 164-189
33. Edward Keenan, A Semantic Definition of 'Indefinite NP', in Eric Reuland and Alice ter Meulen, eds., The Representation of (In)definiteness, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), pp. 286-317
34. Alessandro Zucchi, 'Existential Sentences and Predication', in Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1991), pp. 601-621
35. Mürvet Enç, 'The Semantics of Specificity', Linguistic Inquiry, 22, 1991, pp. 1-25
36. Molly Diesing, 'Deriving Logical Representations: A Proposal', in Indefinites, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 1-11
37. Veerle Van Geenhoven, 'Semantic Incorporation: A Uniform Semantics for West Greenlandic Noun Incorporation and West Germanic Bare Plural Configurations' in Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society(CLS), 31, 1995, pp. 171-186
38. Yoad Winter, 'Semantic Universals and Choice Function Theory', in Francis Corblin, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, and Jean-Marie Marandin, eds., Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics, (The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics, 1999), pp. 59-73
Part B. Plurals and Mass Nouns
39. Greg Carlson, 'A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural', Linguistics and Philosophy, 1, 1977, pp. 413-456
40. Remko Scha, 'Distributive, Collective and Cumulative Quantification', in Jeroen Groenendijk, Theo Janssen, and Martin Stokhof, eds., Formal Methods in the Study of Language. Proceedings of the Third Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: Matematisch Centrum, 1981), pp. 483-512. 41. Godehard Link, 'The Logical Analysis of Plural and Mass Terms: A Lattice-Theoretical Approach', in Rainer Bäuerle, Christoph Schwarze, and Arnim von Stechow, eds., Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language, (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 302-323
42. Brendan Gillon, 'The Readings of Plural Noun Phrases in English', Linguistics and Philosophy, 10, 1987, pp. 199-219
43. Peter Lasersohn, 'On the Readings of Plural Noun Phrases', Linguistic Inquiry, 20, 1989, pp. 130-134
44. Roger Schwarzschild, 'Against Groups', in Martin Stokhof and Leen Torenvliet, eds., Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1989), pp. 475-494
45. Almerindo Ojeda, 'On Conceptional Neuterality', in Linguistic Individuals, (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1991), pp. 161-183
46. Gennaro Chierchia, 'Partitives, Reference to Kinds and Semantic Variation', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 4, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1997), pp. 73-98
Volume IV : The Semantics of Predicates and Inflection
Part A. Events, Aspect, and Thematic Roles
47. Zeno Vendler, 'Verbs and Times', The Philosophical Review, 56, 1957, pp. 143-160
48. Terence Parsons, 'Underlying Events in the Logical Analysis of English', in Ernest LePore, ed., Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), pp. 235-267
49. Emmon Bach, 'The Algebra of Events', Linguistics and Philosophy, 9, 1986, pp. 5-16
50. Henk Verkuyl, 'Aspectual Asymmetry and Quantification', in Veronika Ehrich and Heinz Vater, eds., temporalsemantik, (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1988), pp. 220-259
51. James Pustejovsky, 'The Geometry of Events', in Carol Tenny, ed., Studies in Generative Approaches to Aspect. MIT Lexicon Project Working Papers 24, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, Center for Cognitive Science, 1988), pp. 19-39
52. Greg Carlson, 'Thematic Roles and their Role in Linguistic Theory', Linguistics, 22, 1984, pp. 259-279
53. Malka Rappaport and Beth Levin, 'What to Do with Theta-Roles', in Wendy Wilkins, ed., Syntax and Semantics 21, Thematic Relations, (New York: Academic Press, 1988), pp. 7-36
54. David Dowty, 'Thematic Proto?Roles and Argument Selection', Language, 67, 1991, § 4-8, pp. 560-582
Part B. Tense and Modality
55. Hans Reichenbach, 'The Tenses of Verbs', in Elements of Symbolic Logic, (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1947), pp. 287-298
56. David Dowty, 'The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?', Linguistics and Philosophy, 9, 1986, pp. 37-62
57. Mürvet Enç, 'Anchoring Conditions for Tense', Linguistic Inquiry, 18, 1987, pp. 633-657
58. Dorit Abusch, 'Sequence of Tense, Intensionality and Scope', in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 7, 1988, pp. 1-14
59. Mark Moens and Mark Steedman, 'Temporal Ontology in Natural Language', in Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1987, Stanford University, pp. 1-7
60. Dorit Abusch, 'The Present under Past as De Re Interpretation', in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), 10, 1991, pp. 1-12
61. Toshiyuki Ogihara, 'Adverbs of Quantification and Sequence of Tense Phenomena', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 4, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1994), pp. 251-267
62. Henriëtte De Swart, 'Quantification over Time', in Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eijck, eds., Quantifiers, Logic, and Language, (Stanford, CA.: CSLI Publications, 1996), pp. 311-336
63. Angelika Kratzer, 'The Notional Category of Modality', in Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser, eds., Words, Worlds and Context, (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981), pp. 38-74
64. Donka Farkas, 'On the Semantics of Subjunctive Complements', in Paul Hirschbueler and Konrad Koerner, eds., Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992), pp. 69-104
65. Paul Portner, 'Modal Discourse Referents and the Semantics of the Mood Phrase', in University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 3, 1995, pp. 224-255
Volume V: Operators and Sentence Types
Part A. Adjectives, Degrees, and Comparatives
66. Hans Kamp, 'Two Theories about Adjectives', in Edward Keenan, ed., Formal Semantics of Natural Language, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp.123-155
67. Max J. Cresswell, 'The Semantics of Degree', in Barbara Partee, ed., Montague Grammar, (New York: Academic Press, 1976), pp. 261-292
68. Jean-Yves Lerner and Manfred Pinkal, 'Comparatives and Nested Quantification', in Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1991), pp. 329-345
69. Christopher Kennedy, 'Comparison and Polar Opposition', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 5, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1997), pp. 240-257
Part B. Negation and Negative Polarity Items
70. Gilles Fauconnier, 'Polarity and the Scale Principle', in Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 11, 1975, pp.188-199
71. Jack Hoeksema, 'Monotonicity Phenomena in Natural Language', Linguistic Analysis, 16, 1986, pp.25-40
72. Nirit Kadmon and Fred Landman, 'Polarity Sensitive Any and Free Choice Any', in Martin Stokhof and Leen Torenvliet, eds., Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1989), pp. 227-252
73. Frans Zwarts, 'Nonveridical Contexts', Linguistic Analysis, 25, 1995, pp. 286-312
74. William Ladusaw, 'Configurational Expression of Negation', in Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eijck, eds., Quantifiers, Logic, and Language, (Stanford, CA.: CSLI Publications, 1996), pp. 203-223
Part C. Questions
75. Lauri Karttunen, 'Syntax and Semantics of Questions', Linguistics and Philosophy, 1, 1977, pp. 3-44
76. James Higginbotham and Robert May, 'Questions, Quantifiers and Crossing', The Linguistic Review, 1, 1981, pp. 41-79
77. Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof, 'On the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers', in Fred Landman and Frank Veltman, eds., Varieties of Formal Semantics, (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984), pp. 143-170
78. Stephen Berman, 'Towards the Semantics of Open Sentences: Wh Phrases and Indefinites', in Martin Stokhof and Leen Torenvliet, eds., Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1989), pp. 53-77
79. Utpal Lahiri, 'Questions, Answers and Selection', in Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society(NELS), 21, 1991, pp. 233-246
80. Jonathan Ginzburg, 'A Quasi-Naive Semantics for Interrogatives and its Implications', in Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1991), pp. 197-212
81. Veneeta Dayal, 'Two Types of Universal Terms in Questions', in Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society(NELS), 22, 1992, pp. 443-457
82. James Higginbotham, 'Interrogatives', in Ken Hale and Samuel J. Keyser, eds., The View from Building 20, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 195-227
83. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, 'Interrogatives and Polyadic Quantification', in Nelia Scott, ed., Proceedings of the International Conference on Questions, (Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 1999), pp. 1-14
Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics
Part A. Topic and Focus
84. Barbara Partee, 'Topic, Focus and Quantification', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory(SALT), 1, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1991), pp. 159-187
85. Manfred Krifka, 'A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Foci', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory(SALT), 1, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1991), pp. 127-158
86. Sjaak De Mey, 'Generalized Quantifier Theory and the Semantics of Focus', in Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eijck, eds., Quantifiers, Logic, and Language, (Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1996), pp. 269-279
87. Daniel Büring, 'Topic', in Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt, eds., Focus. Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 142-165
Part B. Pronouns and Anaphora
88. Peter Geach, 'Pronominal Reference: Relative Pronouns', in Reference and Generality, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1962), pp. 108-132
89. Gareth Evans, 'Pronouns', Linguistic Inquiry, 11, 1980, pp. 337-362
90. Hans Kamp, 'A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation', in Jeroen Groenendijk, Theo Janssen, and Martin Stokhof, eds., Formal Methods in the Study of Language. Proceedings of the Third Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: Matematisch Centrum, 1981), pp. 1-41
91. Craige Roberts, 'Modal Subordination and Pronominal Anaphora in Discourse', Linguistics and Philosophy,12, 1989, pp. 683-722
92. Paul Dekker, 'Existential Disclosure', Linguistics and Philosophy, 16, 1993, pp. 561-587
93. Gennaro Chierchia, 'Dynamic Binding', in Dynamics of Meaning, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 62-84
94. Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof and Frank Veltman, 'Coreference and Contextually Restricted Quantification', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 5, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1995), pp. 112-129
95. Chris Barker, 'A Presuppositional Account of Proportional Ambiguity', in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 3, (Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University, 1993), pp. 1-18
Part C. The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
96. Robert Stalnaker, 'Assertion', in Peter Cole, ed., Syntax and Semantics, 9, (New York, Academic Press, 1978), pp. 315-332
97. David Lewis, 'Scorekeeping in a Language Game', in Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli, and Arnim von Stechow, eds., Semantics from Different Points of View, (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1979), pp. 172-187
98. Enric Vallduvi, 'A Theory of Informatics', in The Informational Component, PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1990, (Ann Arbor, MI: Garland Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 201-218
99. Kai Von Fintel, 'The Context-Dependency of Quantifiers', in Restrictions on Quantifier Domains, PhD diss., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1995, pp. 27-36
100. Dov Gabbay and Ruth Kempson, 'Natural-Language Content: A Proof-Theoretic Perspective. A Preliminary Report', in Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1991), pp. 173-195
101. Nicholas Asher, 'Mathematical Treatments of Discourse Contexts', in Paul Dekker and Martin Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium, (Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1995), pp. 21-40