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Readership: Students of semantics in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science at graduate level and above.
Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland
"Pietroski's book offers a fascinating view of how natural language semantics may be organised...His thesis is a no doubt a bold one, but also highly interesting. We can only look forward with excitment to the forthcoming book." - Terje Lohndal, Oslo Studies in Language
"...the book provides a detailed overview of the desiderata for linguistic theories, which makes it highly accessible even to beginners." - The Year's Works in English Studies
Introduction 1: Elementary Cases 2: Quantification and Plurality 3: Causal Verbs and Sentential Complements Tentative Conclusions and Promissory Notes References Index