Bach Emmon W. Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics

State University of New York Press, 1989. — 150 p.Based on lectures delivered at Tianjin Normal University, 1984. Introduces the current developments in model theoretic semantics. Explains Robert Montague's theory, then elaborates it with generalized quantifiers, more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar smaller worldlike entities. Assumes no knowledge of the mathematics or logic used in formal semanatic's