The semantics of definite and indefinite noun phrases:
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
.............................. xi
CHAPTER I. PROBLEMS CONCERNING INDEFINITES AND ANAPHORA
IN LOGICAL SEMANTICS
................. 1
1.
Do Indefinites Refer?
................... 4
1.1.
Russell s view
................... 5
1.2.
Anaphoric pronouns as bound variables
........ 9
1.3.
Anaphoric pronouns as picking up a
speaker s reference
................. 14
1.4.
Anaphoric pronouns as disguised
definite descriptions
................ 25
1.5.
Anaphoric pronouns and the
ambiguity hypothesis
................ 33
1.6.
Summary
....................... 41
2.
Problems with Donkey Sentences
.............. 44
2.1.
Donkey anaphora as variable binding
......... 47
2.1.1.
Egli s proposal
................ 49
2.1.2.
Evaluation of Egli s proposal
......... 54
2.1.3.
Smaby s proposal
............... 66
2.2.
Donkey sentences and pragmatic accounts
of anaphora
..................... 70
2.3.
Donkey anaphora and disguised
definite descriptions
................ 71
2.3.1.
Pro and contra the uniqueness
implication
.................. 81
2.3.2.
Conditionals
................. 91
2.4.
Donkey sentences and the ambiguity
hypothesis
..................... 99
2.5.
Summary
....................... 100
3.
Donkey Anaphora in Game-Theoretical Semantics
....... 102
Footnotes to Chapter I
.................... 119
CHAPTER II. INDEFINITES AS VARIABLES
............... 122
1.
The Adaptability of Indefinites, and Lewis
on Adverbs of Quantification
.............. 123
2.
Logical Forms for English Texts with
Indefinites and Quantifiers
................ 131
3.
Semantic Interpretation of Logical Form
.......... 152
3.1.
Semantic categorization of elements
of logical form
................... 152
3.2.
An extensional semantics, based on
satisfaction
.................... 157
3.3.
From satisfaction to truth
............. 162
4.
Invisible Necessity Operators
............... 168
4.1.
Indefinites bound by overt
modal operators
................... 171
4.2.
Indefinites bound by invisible
modal operators
................... 182
4.3.
A note on generic and other
restrictive indefinites
...............190
5.
The Behavior of Indefinites with Respect to
Constraints on Scope and Anaphora
............. 195
5.1.
The notions of binding and
anaphoric relatedness
................ 196
5.2.
Constraints on scope and coindexing
......... 199
5.3.
Coindexing and scope constraints in view
of the variable analysis of indefinites
.......210
5.4.
The exceptional behavior of
specific indefinites
............... 220
6.
Are Non-Pronominal
Définîtes
Variables Too?
........226
6.1.
Definite descriptions are
not quantifying
...................226
6.2.
The felicity conditions of
définîtes
with descriptive content
.............. 230
6.3.
Non-referring
définîtes
and a projection
problem for felicity conditions
........... 237
6.4.
Problems with narrow-scope
définîtes
........ 245
7.
On So-called Discourse Referents and
their
Lifespans......................249
8.
Concluding Remarks Towards a Theory
of Definiteness
......................263
Footnotes to Chapter II
....................269
CHAPTER III. DEFINITENESS IN FILE CHANGE SEMANTICS
........ 274
1.
Informative Discourse and File-Keeping
.......... 274
1.1.
Introduction
.................... 274
1.2.
How files relate to facts, and how
utterances change them
............... 276
1.3.
File cards as discourse referents
.......... 281
1.4.
Files as common grounds
............... 285
1.5.
File change potentials and
satisfaction conditions
............... 294
2.
Novelty and Familiarity
.................. 298
2.1.
Preliminaries
.................... 302
2.1.1.
The domain of a file
............. 302
2.1.2.
How definiteness affects file change
in the current theory
............. 306
2.2.
Deixis and familiarity with respect
to the file
..................... 309
2.3.
How to interpret constraints
on coindexing
.................... 315
2.4.
The Novelty-Familiarity-Condition and
the Projection Problem
............... 320
3.
Truth
........................... 326
3.1.
Is Existential Closure dispensable?
......... 327
3.2.
A truth criterion for utterances
,
based
on truth values of files
.............. 329
3.3.
Truth of an utterance with respect
to a false file
................... 337
4.
Quantification
...................... 341
4.1.
Quantified structures and file change
........ 342
4.2.
Selection indices eliminated
............ 351
4.3.
Why are the nuclear scopes of operators
existenţi
ally closed?
................ 359
4.4.
Summary of the revised interpretation rules
..... 363
5.
Definite Descriptions and Related Issues
......... 364
5.1.
The Extended Novelty-Familiarity-
Condition
...................... 365
5.2.
Novel
définîtes
and accommodation
.......... 370
5.3.
On the distribution of pronominal versus
non-pronominal
définîtes
.............. 384
6.
Conclusion: Motivation for the File Change Model
of Semantics
....................... 396
Footnotes to Chapter III
................... 404
REFERENCES
............................ 409
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