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By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives. With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning. This fact can be quite mystifying, yet a science of linguistic meaning-semantics-has emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and psychology. Semantics is the study of meaning. But what exactly is "meaning"? What is the exact target of semantic theory? Much of the early work in natural language semantics was accompanied by extensive reflection on the aims of semantic theory, and the form a theory must take to meet those aims. But this meta-theoretical reflection has not kept pace with recent theoretical innovations. This volume re-addresses these questions concerning the foundations of natural language semantics in light of the current state-of-the-art in semantic theorising.
Contents
0: Derek Ball and Brian Rabern: Introduction to the science of meaning
1: Pauline Jacobson: What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?
2: Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III: Axiomatization in the meaning sciences
3: Robert Stalnaker: David Lewis on context
4: François Recanati: From meaning to content
5: Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever: Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
6: Barbara Partee: Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics
7: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates
8: Kathrin Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter
9: Inés Crespo, Hadil Karawani, and Frank Veltman: Expressing expectations
10: Thomas Ede Zimmermann: Fregean compositionality
11: Paul Pietroski: Semantic typology and composition
12: Seth Yalcin: Semantics as model-based science
13: Wolfgang Schwarz: Semantic possibility
14: Derek Ball: Semantics as measurement
