Gennaro Chierchia

Properties, Types and Meaning: Volume I: Foundational Issues - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Gennaro Chierchia 1988 edition

Description for Sales People: Title is also available as part of a set: Properties, Types and Meaning - Vol I + II (978-1-55608-088-3) Review Quotes: I recommended it to everyone who has even a modest interest in the philosophical, logical or linguistic aspects of formal semantics, for to conclude with a quotation from someone whose work has taught me a lot about what formal semantics is and what being a formal semanticist means.' Australian Journal of Linguistics, 18 (1993) Table of Contents: Algebraic Semantics for Intensional Logics, I.- Motivating Ramified Type Theory.- Two Issues in the Foundations of Semantic Theory.- Self-Reference, Attitudes and Paradox.- On Properties and Property Theory.- Fine-Grained Type-Free Intensionality.- Semantic Type-Change and Syntactic Recognition.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects. Publisher Marketing: ThiscollectionofpapersstemsoriginallyfromaconferenceonProperty Theory, TypeTheoryandSemanticsheldinAmherstonMarch13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (often in isolation from one another). Ourintent wastoboostdebate and exchange of ideas on these fundamental issuesat a time ofrapid changeinsemanticsandcognitivescience. The paperspublished in thiswork have evolved substantially since their original presentation at the conference. Given their scope, we thought it convenient to divide the work into two volumes. The first deals primarily withlogicaland philosophical foundations, the second with more empirical semantic issues. Whilethere isa common set of issuestyingthetwovolumestogether, theyareboth self-containedand canbereadindependentlyofoneanother. Twoofthepapersinthepresentcollection(vanBentheminvolume Iand ChierchiainvolumeII)werenotactuallyread attheconference. They are nevertheless included here for their direct relevance to the topicsofthevolumes. Regrettably, some of the papers that were presented (Feferman, Klein, and Plotkin) could not be included in the presentwork due to timingproblems. Wenevertheless thank theauthorsfortheircontribu tionintermsofideasandparticipationinthedebate. The conference had a group of invited discussants whichincluded Emmon Bach, JanetFodor, Erhard Hinrichs, Angelika Kratzer, Fred Landman, Richard Larson, Godehard Link, Chris Menzel, Uwe Mon nich, andCarlPollard. Wethankthemall(alongwiththeotherpartici pants)fortheirstimulatingandlivelypresence."

Contributor Bio:  Chierchia, Gennaro Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milan. Contributor Bio:  Partee, Barbara HPaul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface. Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is the author of several landmark essays in formal semantics. She has written and edited numerous books, including "Mathematical Methods in Linguistics "(with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), "Montague Grammar "(edited, 1976), and "Quantification in Natural Languages "(edited, with Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).