| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Nature of Semantic Theory | |
| The Pretheoretical Domain Of Semantics | |
| Semantic Properties and Relations | |
| The External Significance of Language | |
| The Internal Significance of Language | |
| The Pretheoretical Domain as Pretheoretical | |
| Semantic Theory As A Theory Of Linguistic Knowledge | |
| Properties of Semantic Rules | |
| Acquisition of Semantic Rules | |
| Use of Semantic Rules | |
| The Place And Responsibilities Of Semantic Theory | |
| Knowledge of Meaning and Theories of Truth | |
| T Theories | |
| A Sample Derivation | |
| The Nontriviality of T Theorems | |
| T Theories As Theories Of Meaning | |
| The Extension Question | |
| The Information Question | |
| The Theoretical Domain Of Semantics | |
| Recasting the Pretheoretical Domain | |
| The External Significance of Language | |
| The Internal Significance of Language | |
| The Compositional Form of T Theories | |
| The Reality Of Semantic Knowledge | |
| Exercises | |
| Meaning and Structure | |
| Notions Of Structure | |
| Semantic Structure and Syntactic Structure | |
| Semantic Structure and Logical Structure | |
| Constraints On Semantic Rules | |
| Strong Compositionality | |
| Introducing Semantic Values | |
| Must Semantic Analysis Be Exhaustive? | |
| Some Syntactic Theory | |
| Structural Descriptions | |
| Licensing Phrase Markers | |
| Levels of Representation | |
| Concluding Methodological Remarks | |
| Combining Syntax and Semantics | |
| Analyzing Fragments of Natural Language | |
| Exercises | |
| Verbs and Predication | |
| The Structure And Interpretation Of Elementary Clauses | |
| The Theory PC+ | |
| A Sample Derivation | |
| The Semantics Of Predicates And Predication | |
| Some Thought Experiments | |
| Generality and Object Independence | |
| Distinguishing Predicates | |
| Alternatives To The PC+ Analysis Of Predicates | |
| PCSet | |
| PC prop | |
| Evaluating The Alternatives | |
| Ontological Commitment | |
| Semantic Properties | |
| Linguistic Predictions | |
| Exercises | |
| Proper Nouns and Reference | |
| Proper Nouns In PC+ | |
| The Problem of Coextensive Proper Nouns | |
| The Problem of Empty Proper Nouns | |
| Descriptive Names | |
| Hypothesizing Names | |
| The Theory PC+ DN | |
| Semantic Properties of Descriptive Names | |
| Problems For PC+DN | |
| Rigidity of Proper Nouns | |
| Making Descriptive Names Rigid | |
| The Problem of Descriptive Conditions | |
| Knowing The Axioms Of A Semantic Theory | |
| Mill and Frege | |
| Coextensive Proper Nouns Again | |
| Empty Proper Nouns Again | |
| Linking Names and Things | |
| Exercises | |
| Pronouns and Demonstratives | |
| Introducing Contexts | |
| Contexts, Sequences, And Indices | |
| Relativizing the T Theory to Sequences | |
| A Sample Derivation | |
| Absolute Truth | |
| Conditionalized T Sentences | |
| Complex Demonstratives | |
| Truth Conditions versus Sequence Conditions | |
| Gender Information in Pronouns | |
| Indexical Pronouns and the Relation S | |
| The Semantic Properties Of Pronouns And Demonstratives | |
| Exercises | |
| Quantification | |
| The Syntactic Form Of Quantification | |
| The Semantics Of Quantification | |
| Quantification and Proper Nouns | |
| Quantification and Variable-Reference Terms | |
| Sequence Variants | |
| The Theory Predc | |
| Quantified Sentences as True or False Absolutely | |
| Residual Noncompositionality in PredC | |
| Quantification And The LF Hypothesis | |
| Proper Binding | |
| Quantifier-Scope Ambiguity | |
| Variable-Binding Operators | |
| Topicalization | |
| Restrictive Relative Clauses | |
| Variable Binding, Sequence Variants, and Compositionality | |
| Exercises | |
| Quantifiers and Quantifier Properties | |
| Noncompositionality In Predc | |
| The Relational Analysis Of Determiners | |
| The Theory GQ | |
| Quantifier Properties | |
| Affectivity and Directional Entailment | |
| The Definiteness Effect | |
| The Partitive Constraint | |
| Conservativity and "Possible Determiners" | |
| What Is A Quantifier? | |
| Permutation | |
| Quantifiers as Cardinality Functions | |
| Exercises | |
| Definite Descriptions | |
| Definite Descriptions As Quantifiers | |
| Reference versus Denotation | |
| Some Virtues of the Quantificational Account | |
| Improper Descriptions | |
| Definite Descriptions As Referring Terms | |
| Referential Cases | |
| Definite Descriptions As Demonstratives | |
| A Pragmatic Alternative | |
| Referential Interpretation versus Referential Use | |
| A Pragmatic Typology | |
| Semantics or Pragmatics? | |
| Proper Nps As Referential Definites | |
| Exercises | |
| Anaphora | |
| Bound-Variable Anaphora | |
| Syntactic Constraints On Bound-Variable Anaphora | |
| Bound-Variable Anaphora In GQ | |
| Argument Anaphora | |
| Names And Pronouns: Variable Binding | |
| Names And Pronouns: Sequence Constraints | |
| Names And Pronouns: Antecedence | |
| Bound-Variable Anaphora With Proper Names? | |
| Unbound Anaphora | |
| The Nonquantificational Indefinite Theory | |
| The Descriptive-Pronoun Theory | |
| Exercises | |
| Clausal Complements and Attitude Reports | |
| Clausal Complements and Truth Values | |
| Words, Worlds, and Propositions | |
| Quotational Theories | |
| Modal Theories | |
| Propositional Theories | |
| Interpreted Logical Forms | |
| Introducing Ilfs | |
| The Empirical Adequacy Of Ilfs | |
| The Intuitive Adequacy Of Ilfs | |
| The Theory ILF | |
| ILFs And Variable-Reference Terms | |
| Purely Syntactic Ilfs | |
| What's In An ILF? | |
| ILFs and Inference | |
| Exercises | |
| Events, States, and Times | |
| Analyses of Adverbs | |
| Adverbs As Arguments | |
| Adverbs As Predicates | |
| Davidson's Event Analysis | |
| The Theory EC | |
| Virtues Of The Event Analysis | |
| Thematic Roles | |
| Decomposing The Verb | |
| The Theory ECQ | |
| Virtues Of The Thematic-Role Analysis | |
| Uniqueness And Identity Of Thematic Roles | |
| States | |
| Accommodating The Event/State Distinction In ECQ | |
| States And Events In AP And PP | |
| States And Events In Nominals | |
| The Nature Of States And Events | |
| Times | |
| Secondary Predicates Again | |
| Relativizing "Cul" And "Hold" To Times | |
| Introducing Simple Tenses | |
| Exercises | |
| Meaning and Knowledge | |
| Semantics and Linguistic Individualism | |
| Semantics and Psychoindividualism | |
| General Terms: Earth And Twin Earth | |
| Accommodating Psychoindividualism | |
| Singular Terms | |
| Tacit Knowledge | |
| A Computational Framework | |
| Tacit-Rule Following And Computation | |
| Against Eliminative Materialism | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Author Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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