Portner P., Partee B.H. (eds.) Formal Semantics. The Essential Readings

Blackwell Publishers, 2002. — 495 pp.Our purpose here has been to put together a collection of classics that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics which can serve both as a reader for graduate-level semantics courses and as a reference collection for researchers in semantics and related fields. These works are widely recommended to virtually every student of formal semantics, and we believe they are of value for anyone interested in the semantics of natural languageThe Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural
Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language
The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-theoretical Approach
Assertion
Scorekeeping in a Language Game
Adverbs of Quantification
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness
On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions
Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English "Imperfective" Progressive
The Notional Category of Modality
The Algebra of Events
Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity
Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-shifting Principles
Syntax and Semantics of Questions
Type-shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives
On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-polarity Items