Semantics in Generative Grammar

Irene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases (1987) and, with Angelika Kratzer, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.Angelika Kratzer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and, with Irene Heim, is Founder and Editor of Natural Language Semantics.

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• Preface ix1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 12 Executing the Fregean Program 133 Semantics and Syntax 434 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 615 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 866 Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type 1317 Quantification and Grammar 1788 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement 2099 Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis 23910 Syntactic and Semantic Binding 26011 E-Type Anaphora 27712 First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics 299Index 313