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David Lewis and His Place in the History of Formal Semantics
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2022)
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The chapter looks at an aspect of David Lewis’s work on language that has been important for the foundation and history of formal semantics as a discipline practiced by both linguists and philosophers of language: a referential semantics over possible worlds that is connected to linguistically plausible syntactic structures. Lewis’s original contributions are placed within their historical context: Church’s typed lambda calculus, Carnapian intensions, the categorial grammars of Ajdukiewicz, and Chomsky’s theories of the relation between syntax and semantics. Relying on Lewis’s letters, the chapter identifies the works of Stenius, Davidson, and Katz as triggering Lewis’s interest in formal theories of natural language semantics and clarifies the relation between his and Montague’s contributions to the foundation of the discipline.
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Arts and Humanities; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Semantics and Pragmatics
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URL: https://works.bepress.com/angelika_kratzer/54
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Attitude Ascriptions and Speech Reports
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2022)
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Chasing Hook: Quantified Indicative Conditionals
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2021)
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Deconstructing information structure
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 113 ; 2397-1835 (2020)
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Natural Language Semantics. An International Journal of Semantics and its Interfaces in Grammar
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2020)
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Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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On External Arguments
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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Front Matter
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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Natural Language Semantics. An International Journal of Semantics and its Interfaces in Grammar
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2017)
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Evidential Moods in Attitude and Speech Reports (Slides).
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2016)
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Creating a Family: Transfer of Possession Verbs (Slides).
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2015)
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Modal Comparisons: Two Dilletantes in Search of an Expert
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In: Von Fintel (2014)
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Modal Comparisons: Two Dilettantes in Search of an Expert
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In: Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series (2014)
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Modality for the 21st Century (Pre-Proceedings)
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2013)
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Modality for the 21st Century
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In: Angelika H. Kratzer (2013)
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