McNally L., Szabó Z.G. (eds.) A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics

Springer, 2022. — 1169 p. — (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 100). — ISBN 978-3-030-85308-2.This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining the afterlife of the proposals, and offering a useful bibliography for further study.The chapters were commissioned by the series editors to mark the 100th volume in the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. The target articles are amongst the most widely read and cited papers up to the end of the 20th century, and cover most of the important subfields of formal semantics. The authors are all prominent researchers in the field, making this volume a valuable addition to the literature for researchers, students, and teachers of formal semantics.On Abusch’s “Sequence of Tense and Temporal de re”
On Bach’s “The Algebra of Events”
On Barwise and Cooper’s “Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language”
On Carlson’s “A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural”
On Chierchia’s “Reference to Kinds Across Languages”
On Davidson’s “The Logical Form of Action Sentences”
On Dowty’s “Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection”
On Groenendijk and Stokhof’s “Dynamic Predicate Logic”
On Heim’s “On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions”
On Jacobson’s “Towards a Variable-Free Semantics”
On Kamp’s “A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation”
On Karttunen’s “The Syntax and Semantics of Questions”
On Kratzer’s “The Notional Category of Modality”
On Krifka’s “Nominal Reference, Temporal Constitution and Quantification in Event Semantics”
On Ladusaw’s “On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items”
On Lewis’s “Adverbs of Quantification”
On Link’s “The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms:​ A Lattice-theoretical Approach”
On Montague’s “The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English”
On Partee’s “Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles”
On Stalnaker’s “Indicative Conditionals”
On von Stechow’s “Comparing Semantic Theoriesof Comparison”