Readership: This book will appeal to students of formal semantics and the syntax-semantics interface at gradauate level and above in departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
Chris Barker, Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University,, and Pauline Jacobson, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University
1: Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson: Introduction: Direct Compositionality Part I Some Programmatic Issues 2: David Dowty: Compositionality as an Empirical Problem 3: Chris Barker: Direct Compositionality on Demand 4: Chung-chieh Shan: Linguistic Side Effects 5: Yoad Winter: Type Shifting with Semantic Features: a Unified Perspective Part II Case Studies 6: Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: the Case of "Principle B" Effects 7: Ivano Caponigro and Daphna Heller: The Non Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences 8: Maribel Romero: Connectivity in a Unified Analysis of Specificational Subjects and Concealed Questions 9: Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva: Degree Quantifiers, Position of Merger Effects with their Restrictors, and Conservativity 10: Yael Sharvit: Two Reconstruction Puzzles Part III New Horizons 11: Maria Bittner: Online Update: Temporal, Modal, and de sa Anaphora in Polysynthetic Discourse 12: Christopher Potts: The Dimensions of Quotation Index
