Compositionality in formal semantics : selected papers of Barbara Partee / Barbara H. Partee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Reflections of a formal semanticist -- 2. Opacity, coreference, and pronouns -- 3. Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English -- 4. Toward the logic of tense and aspect in English with Michael Bennett -- 5. Bound variables and other anaphors -- 6. Anaphora and semantic structure with Emmon Bach -- 7. Compositionality -- 8. Appendix B. Genitives, a case study -- 9. Ambiguous pseudoclefts with unambiguous be -- 10. Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles -- 11. The airport squib: any, almost, and superlatives -- 12. Many quantifiers -- 13. Binding implicit variables in quantified contexts -- 14. Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences -- 15. Some puzzles of predicate possessives with Vladimir Borschev.

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