Introduction to Montague Semantics David Dowty, Robert E. Wall, Stanley Peters
Publisher: Springer

This essay briefly sketches the history of . Partee & Hendriks: Montague Grammar. Adding QNP in the tradition of Montague. Dowty, Robert Eugene Wall, Stanley Peters. Formal Semantics: the Essential Readings. It was Lindström who introduced binary generalized quantifiers, without which one can express Most things walk, but not Most cats walk. So successful was he that in the standard textbook on Montague's possible-world semantics by David Dowty, Robert Wall and Stanley Peters Introduction to Montague Semantics (Reidel, Dordrecht, 1981), on p. Our immediate goal is to introduce Montagovian semantics to Computer Scientists and derivation calculators to natural-language semanticists. We hope that a linguist would . By Alan Henderson Gardiner; The Sound Pattern of English By Noam Chomsky, Morris Halle; Aspects of the Theory of Syntax By Noam Chomsky; Introduction to Montague Semantics by David R. The logician and philosopher Richard Montague argued that natural languages do have a very systematic semantic structure, but that it can be understood only if one uses a rich enough logic to mirror the rich syntactic structure of natural languages. Montague: Formal Philosophy (Introduction + Chapter 8 PTQ). The exposition will follow Montague's paper “The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English”, since that has historically been the most influential of Montague's semantic writings: I guess I might say something about “Universal Grammar” at the end, although I expect the reader will find Now, if you took high school algebra after the introduction of “New Math” (i.e., are not seventy years old) someone once tried to teach you this definition; maybe it even took.