Properties, Types, and Meaning, Vol.2: Semantic Issues

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This collection focuses on two interrelated problems which are central to the analysis of meaning: intentionality and the nature of semantic categories. Most of the problems that semantics currently faces call for a characterization of information bearing structures richer than one cast in terms of possible worlds, and for a system of semantic categories more dynamic and flexible than the one stemming from standard type-theory. -- Back cover.  Read more... Abstract: This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. Two of the papers in the present collection (van Benthem in volume 1 and Chierchia in volume II) were not actually read at the conference.  Read more... Content: v. 1. Foundational issues. Algebraic semantics for intensional logics, I / Peter Aczel --- Motivating ramified type theory / Richmond Thomason --- Two issues in the foundations of semantic theory / Raymond Turner --- Self-reference, attitudes and paradox / Nicholas Asher and Hans Kamp --- On properties and property theory / Michael Jubien --- Fine-grained type-free intensionality / George Bealer --- Semantic type-change and syntactic recognition / Johan Van Benthem ---- v. 2. Semantic issues. Type-shifting rules and the semantics of interrogatives / Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stockhof --- On the semantic content of the notion of 'thematic role' / David Dowty --- Structured meanings, thematic rolesand control / Gennaro Chierchia --- On the semantic composition of English generic sentences / Gregory Carlson --- Generically speaking, or using discourse representation theory to interpret generics / Lenhart Schubert and Francis J. Pelletier --- Realism and definiteness / Henk Zeevat.