Semantics of Natural Language

✍ Scribed by Charles J. Fillmore (auth.), Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 780
• Series: Synthese Library 40
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Subjects, Speakers, and Roles....Pages 1-24
Deep Structure as Logical Form....Pages 25-47
Troubles about Actions....Pages 48-69
Act....Pages 70-126
Some Problems Concerning the Logic of Grammatical Modifiers....Pages 127-141
Pragmatics and Intensional Logic....Pages 142-168
General Semantics....Pages 169-218
On the Frame of Reference....Pages 219-252
Naming and Necessity....Pages 253-355
Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions....Pages 356-379
Pragmatics....Pages 380-397
The Semantics of Modal Notions and the Indeterminacy of Ontology....Pages 398-414
Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns....Pages 415-441
Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory....Pages 442-454
Grammar and Philosophy....Pages 455-472
Analytic/Synthetic and Semantic Theory....Pages 473-482
A Program for Syntax....Pages 483-497
A Program for Logic....Pages 498-544
Linguistics and Natural Logic....Pages 545-665
Semantical Archaeology: A Parable....Pages 666-674
On the Semantics of the Ought-To-Do....Pages 675-694
Inference and Self-Reference....Pages 695-708
What is Said....Pages 709-721
The Role of Inductive Reasoning in the Interpretation of Metaphor....Pages 722-740
Probabilistic Grammars for Natural Languages....Pages 741-762
Addenda to Saul A. Kripke’s Paper ‘Naming and Necessity’....Pages 763-769
Back Matter....Pages 770-772

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Language; Semantics