Readership: Scholars and advanced students in linguistic semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language
Friederike Moltmann, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
Friederike Moltmann is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She had previously taught both linguistics and philosophy at various universities in the US and the UK. She has published numerous articles in both linguistic and philosophical journals and is author of Parts and Wholes in Semantic (OUP, 1997).
"In Moltmanns work, linguistic, metaphysical and more general philosophical insight and theory are expertly woven together in an exceptionally original and rewarding way. This book is essential reading for philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists." - Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas at Austin
"This book is important for its hypotheses and conclusions, but even more so for its methodology: Moltmanns thorough and careful examination of linguistic (and crosslinguistic) data has raised so-called descriptive metaphysics, the analysis of the categories of being implicitly recognized by ordinary language and commonsense thought, to a new level." - John P Burgess, Princeton University
Introduction 1: Reference to Universals 2: Reference to Tropes and the Ontology of Tropes 3: The Semantics of Special Quantifiers in Predicate Position 4: Propositions and Attitudinal Objects 5: Intensional Transitive Verbs and their Objects 6: Reifying Terms Conclusion References Bibliography Index
