Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ

D. R. Dowty

Springer, Oct 31, 1979 - Philosophy - 415 pages

Contents

• MONTAGUES GENERAL THEORY OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC THEORIES OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: 1
• 12 Syntax in the UG Theory and in Linguistic Theories: 3
• 122 Montagues Use of the Ambiguation Relation R: 4
• 123 Other Ways of Construing the Ambiguating Relation R: 6
• 124 The Relation R as Transformational Component: 7
• 125 R and the Potential Vacuity of the Compositionality Thesis: 8
• 126 TradeOffs between R and the Syntactic Operations: 9
• 127 Transformations as Independent Syntactic Rules: 11
• 13 Semantics in UG: 13
• 132 KatzEarly Theory as an Instance of the General Theory of Meanings: 15
• 133 The Theory of Reference in UG: 17
• 134 Generative Semantics as an Instance of UG: 18
• 14 Interpretation by Means of Translation: 21
• 142 Classical GS and UpsideDown GS: 22
• 143 Directionality: 24
• 15 Preliminaries to the Analysis of Word Meaning: 27
• 152 Is a Level of Semantic Representation Necessary?: 29
• 153 Lexical Decompositions and the Description of Entailments: 31
• 154 Decomposition and Structuralism: 32
• 155 Possible Word Meanings in Natural Language: 33
• Notes: 36
• THE SEMANTICS OF ASPECTUAL CLASSES OF VERBS IN ENGLISH: 37
• 21 The Development of Decomposition Analysis in Generative Semantics: 38
• 212 Causative and Inchoatives in Lakoffs Dissertation: 40
• 213 McCawley s PostTransformational Lexical Insertion: 43
• 214 Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Evidence for Decomposition: 45
• 215 The Place of Lexical Insertion Transformations in a GS Derivation: 47
• 22 The AristotleRyleKennyVendler Verb Classification: 51
• 221 The Development of the Verb Classification: 52
• 222 States and Activities: 55
• 223 Activities and Accomplishments: 56
• 224 Achievements: 58
• 225 Lexical Ambiguity: 60
• 226 The Problem of Indefinite Plurals and Mass Nouns: 62
• 227 Examples of the Four Vendler Categories in Syntactic and Semantic Subcategories: 65
• 23 An Aspect Calculus: 71
• 232 Statives von Wrights Logic of Change and BECOME: 73
• 233 A Semantic Solution to the Problem of Indefinites and Mass Nouns: 78
• 234 Carlsons Treatment of Bare Plurals: 83
• 235 DegreeAchievements: 88
• 236 Accomplishments and CAUSE: 91
• 237 CAUSE and Lewis Analysis of Causation: 99
• 238 DO Agency and Activity Verbs: 110
• 239 The Semantics of DO: 117
• 2310 DO in Accomplishments: 120
• 2311 Summary of the Aspect Calculus: 122
• 24 The Aspect Calculus as Restricting Possible Word Meanings: 125
• Notes: 129
• INTERVAL SEMANTICS AND THE PROGRESSIVE TENSE: 133
• 32 Truth Conditions Relative to Intervals not Moments: 138
• 33 Revised Truth Conditions for BECOME: 139
• 34 Truth Conditions for the Progressive: 145
• 35 Motivating the Progressive Analysis Independently of Accomplishment Sentences: 150
• 37 Extending the Analysis to the Futurate Progressive: 154
• 38 Another Look at the Vendler Classification in an IntervalBased Semantics: 163
• 382 Stative Verbs in the Progressive Tense: 173
• 383 A Revised Verb Classification: 180
• 384 Accomplishments with EventObjects: 186
• Notes: 187
• LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION IN MONTAGUE GRAMMAR: 193
• Lambda Abstraction vs Predicate Raising: 200
• 43 Morphologically Derived Causatives and Inchoatives: 206
• 44 Prepositional Phrase Accomplishments: 207
• 45 Accomplishments with Two Prepositional: 213
• 46 Prepositional Phrase Adjuncts vs Prepositional Phrase Complements: 216
• 47 Factitive Constructions: 219
• 48 Periphrastic Causatives: 225
• 49 ByPhrases in Accomplishment Sentences: 227
• 410 Causative Constructions in Other Languages: 229
• Notes: 232
• LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FOR THE TWO STRATEGIES OF LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION: 235
• 52 Arguments that Familiar Transformations Also Apply PreLexically: 238
• 53 Pronominalization of Parts of Lexical Items: 240
• 54 Scope Ambiguities with Almost: 241
• HaveDeletion Cases: 244
• Accomplishment Cases: 250
• 57 Arguments from RE and Reversative UN: 256
• 58 Accommodating the Adverb Scope Data in a PTQ Grammar: 260
• 582 Treating the Adverb as Ambiguous: 264
• 583 Accommodating the HaveDeletion Cases: 269
• 59 Overpredictions of the Generative Semantics Hypothesis: 271
• 592 Adverb Raising Operator Raising: 275
• 594 Quantifier Lowering and Carlsons Analysis of Bare Plurals: 280
• 510 Concluding Evaluation: 282
• Notes: 285
• THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF WORD FORMATION LEXICAL RULES: 294
• 61 Montagues Program and Lexical Rules: 296
• 62 A Lexical Component For a Montague Grammar: 298
• 63 Lexical Rules and Morphology: 301
• 64 Lexical Rules and Syntax: 305
• 65 Examples of Lexical Rules: 307
• 66 Problems for Research in the Pragmatics and in the Semantics of Word Formation: 309
• Notes: 319
• THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF TENSE AND TIME ADVERBIALS IN ENGLISH AN ENGLISH FRAGMENT: 322
• 71 The Syncategorematic Nature of TenseTime Adverbial Interaction: 323
• 72 Rules for Main Tense Adverbials: 325
• For an Hour and In an Hour: 332
• 74 The Syntactic Structure of the Auxiliary: 336
• 75 The Present Perfect: 339
• 76 Negation: 348
• 77 An English Fragment: 350
• 771 Basic ModelTheoretic Definitions: 351
• 772 The Syntax and Interpretation of the Translation Language: 352
• 773 The Syntax and Translation of English: 354
• 774 Lexical Rules: 360
• 775 Lexicon: 361
• 776 Examples: 368
• Notes: 371
• INTENSIONS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY: 375
• Notes: 394
• References: 396
• Index: 409

Bibliographic information

• Title: Word Meaning and Montague Grammar: The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ; Volume 7 of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy; Volume 7 of Synthese Language library; Issue 7 of Synthese Library
• Author: D. R. Dowty
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Springer, 1979
• ISBN: 9027710082, 9789027710086
• Length: 415 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics; Philosophy / Reference