From Grammar to Meaning

In recent years, the study of formal semantics and pragmatics has grown tremendously. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development in these areas.

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto; Part I. From Grammar to Meaning: Foundational Issues: 1. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979-1988 Barbara H. Partee; 2. Notes on denotation and denoting Noam Chomsky; Part II. From Grammar to Meaning: Formal Developments, New Findings, and Challenges: 3. On the existential force of bare plurals across languages Veneeta Dayal; 4. Broaden your views, but try to stay focussed: a missing piece in the polarity system Anamaria F¿l¿ü; 5. On the free choice potential of epistemic and deontic modals Maria Aloni and Michael Franke; 6. Implicatures of modified numerals Clemens Mayr; 7. A scalar semantics for scalar readings of number words Christopher Kennedy; 8. Presuposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposition strengthening Danny Fox; Part III. From Grammar to Meaning: Experimental Insights: 9. Unification in child language Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton; 10. Acquisition meets comparison: an investigation of gradable adjectives Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo and Maria Teresa Guasti; 11. Intervention in grammar and processing Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi; Appendix A. Gennaro Chierchia's list of publications; Appendix B. 'Logic and Linguistics: A Marriage of Inconvenience'; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.