%%LAST UPDATE: Tue 06/13/2000 % Descriptions Bibliography (Philosophy of Language) % Delia Graff % graff@princeton.edu % --------------------- ARTICLES -------------------------------------- @Article{burge73, author = "Tyler Burge", title = "Reference and Proper Names", journal = "Journal of Philosophy", year = 1973, volume = 70, pages = "425--439", annote = "Names as predicates" } @Article{carlson77, author = "Gregory N. Carlson", title = "A Unified Analysis of the {English} Bare Plural", journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1977, volume = 1, pages = "413-457", annote = "Bare plurals are singular terms referring to kinds" } @InCollection{cartwright87a, author = "Richard Cartwright", title = "On the Origins of {Russell's} Theory of Descriptions", booktitle = "Philosophical Essays", pages = "95--133", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Article{donnellan66, author = "Keith Donnellan", title = "Reference and Definite Descriptions", journal = "Philosophical Review", year = 1966, volume = 75, pages = "281--304" } @Article{doron88, author = "Edit Doron", title = "The Semantics of Predicate Nominals", journal = "Linguistics", year = 1988, volume = 26, number = 2, pages = "281--301", annote = "ED argues that `is' is not always identity when complemented by noun phrases. She does, however, think it sometimes is. She develops a number of diagnostics---both semantic and syntactic--- for deciding whether a particular occurrence of a noun phrase in predicative position is predicative or referrential. } @Article{dretske72, author = "Fred Dretske", title = "Contrastive Statements", journal = "Philosophical Review", year = 1972, volume = 81, number = 4, pages = "411--437" } @Article{farkasandsugioka, author = "Donka F. Farkas and Yoko Sugioka", title = "Restrictive If/When Clauses", journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1983, volume = 6, pages = "225--258", annote = "They treat Gen as an adverb of quantifcation, basically, a vague binary quantifier. But they treat Bare Plurals as kind-denoting." } @Article{fodorandsag82, author = "Janet Dean Fodor and Ivan A. Sag", title = "Referential and Quantificational Indefinites", journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1982, volume = 5, pages = "355-398" } @InCollection{gillon90, author = "Brendan S. Gillon", title = "Bare Plurals as Plural Indefinite Noun Phrases", booktitle = "Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning", publisher = "Kluwer", year = 1990, editor = "Kyburg Jr., Henry E. and Ronald P. Loui and Gregory N. Carlson", address = "Dordrecht", pages = "119-166" annote = "Takes bare plurals to quantifier phrases. Defends view against Carlson's arguments." } @Article{gillon90b, author = "Brendan S. Gillon", title = {Plural Noun Phrases and Their Readings: A Reply to Lasersohn}, journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1990, volume = 13, number = 4, pages = {477--485} } @InCollection{kamp81a, author = "Hans Kamp", title = "A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation", booktitle = "Formal Methods in the Study of Language", publisher = "Mathematisch Centrum", year = 1981, editor = "J. Groenendijk and T. Janssen and M. Stokhof", series = "Mathematical Centre Tracts 135", pages = "277-322", address = "Amsterdam" annote = "DRT" } @InCollection{keenan87, author = "Edward L. Keenan", title = "A Semantic Definition of ``Indefinte {NP}''", booktitle = "The Representation of (In)definiteness", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @InProceedings{kratzer88, author = "Angelika Kratzer", title = "Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates", booktitle = {Genericity in Natural Language}, pages = {247--284}, year = 1988, editor = {Manfred Krifka}, series = {Proceedings of the 1988 T\"{u}bingen Conference}, note = {Reprinted in \cite{carlsonandpelletier95}} } @InCollection{krifka95, author = "Manfred Krifka and Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Gregory N. Carlson and Alice ter Meulen and Gennaro Chierchia and Godehard Link", title = "Genericity: An Introduction", booktitle = "The Generic Book", editor = "Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier", publisher = "University of Chicago Press", year = 1995, address = "Chicago" } @Article{koslicki99, author = "Kathrin Koslicki", title = "Genericity and Logical Form", journal = "Mind and Language", volume = 14, year = 1999, pages = "441--467" } @InCollection{link83, author = "Godehard Link", title = "The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms", booktitle = "Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language", publisher = "Walter de Gruyter", year = 1983, editor = "Rainer {B\"{a}uerle} and Christoph Schwarze and Arnim von Stechow", address = "Berlin", booktitle = "Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language", pages = "302--323" } @InCollection{heim87, author = "Irene Heim", title = "Where Does the Definiteness Restriction Apply? {Evidence} from the Definiteness of Variables", booktitle = "The Representation of (In)definiteness", editor = "Eric J. Reuland and Alice G. B. ter Meulen", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA", annote = "adsf" } @Article{heim90, author = {Irene Heim}, title = {E-Type Pronouns and Donkey Anaphora}, journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy}, year = 1990, volume = 13, number = 2, pages = {137--177} } @InCollection{higgie87, author = "James Higginbotham", booktitle = "The Representation of (In)definiteness", title = "Indefiniteness and Predication", pages = "43--70", editor = "Eric J. Reuland and Alice G. B. ter Meulen", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @InCollection{kim70, author = "Jaegwon Kim", title = "Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations", booktitle = "Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel", publisher = "D. Reidel", year = 1970, editor = "Nicholas Rescher", address = "Dordrecht", pages = "199--215" } @InCollection{lewis75, author = "David Lewis", title = "Adverbs of Quantification", booktitle = "Formal Semantics of Natural Language", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", year = 1975, editor = "E. Keenan", address = "Cambridge, England", pages = "3--15" note = "Page references are to reprint in \citeasnoun{lewis98}" } @Article{ludlowandneale91, author = "Peter Ludlow and Stephen Neale", title = "Indefinite Descriptions: In Defense of {Russell}", journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1991, volume = 14, pages = "171--202" } @InCollection{montague73, author = {Richard Montague}, title = {The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English}, booktitle = {Approaches to Natural Language}, editor = {J. Hintikka and J. Moravcsik and P. Suppes}, publisher = {Reidel}, year = 1973, address = {Dordrecht}, note = "Reprinted in \cite{montague74}" } @InCollection{montague70, author = "Richard Montague", title = "English as a Formal Language", booktitle = "Linguaggi nella Societ\`a e nella Tecnica", publisher = "Edizioni di Comunit\`a", year = 1970, editor = "Bruno Visentini and others", address = "Milan", note = "Reprinted in \citeasnoun{montague74}" } @InProceedings{partee86, author = "Barbara Partee", title = "Ambiguous pseudoclefts with unambiguous `be'", booktitle = "Proceedings of {\it NELS 16, 1985}", editor = "S. Berman and J.-W. Choe and J. McDonough", year = 1986, organization = "GLSA", publisher = "University of Massachusetts, Amherst", pages = "354--366", annote = "Partee proposes that `be' always takes an X-type subject with an type complement. To get the ambiguity in `What John is is unusual' she proposes that for the ``predicational'' reading (John is a clown psychologist, and that is unusual) we let `what John is' be of type e, and refers to (something like) the having of the property of being a clown psychologist and `unusual' is a simple predication. To get the ``specificational'' reading, (where being unusual is on the ``list'' of things that John is, i.e., John is unusual) we have a subject-predicate inversion around `be' so that `unusual' is of type e, and denotes the individual correlate of the property of being unusual, while `what John is' is of type , and denotes a second-level property that (an individual correlate of) a property has just in case it's a property John has. She says this is all a formalization of Williams (1983), and refers a lot to Chierchia's thsis for the notion of an individual correlate. " } @InCollection{partee87, author = "Barbara Partee", title = "Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles", booktitle = "Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers", publisher = "Foris Publications", year = 1987, editor = "Jeroen Groenendijk and Dick de Jongh and Martin Stokhof", volume = 8, series = "Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics", pages = "115--143" } @Article{reimer92, author = "Marga Reimer", title = "Incomplete Descriptions", journal = "Erkenntnis", year = 1992, volume = 37, pages = "347-363", annote = "Argues that incomplete descriptions can't be handled by the Russellian theory. She objects to the two standard ways of doing this: the explicit approach---where the description is completed by ellided material; and the implicit approach---where the domain of quantification is contextually restricted. The problem with the implicit approach is that usually many intensionally different, but extensionally correct completions will be available; there is no way to pick a single one. The problem with the explicit approach, she argues, is that `The F is G' and `There is exactly one F and whatever is F is G' do not seem to express the same proposition in the same context. (The first could be true, but the latter false in one and the same context; the idea being that an utterance of the expanded sentence tends to widens the domain.)" } @InCollection{rooth95, author = "Mats Rooth", title = "Indefinites, Adverbs of Quantification and Focus Semantics", booktitle = "The Generic Book", year = "1995", editor = "Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier", publisher = "University of Chicago Press", year = 1995, address = "Chicago" } @InCollection{rooth96, author = "Mats Rooth", booktitle = "The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory", title = "Focus", OPTchapter = 10, publisher = "Blackwell", year = 1996, editor = "Shalom Lappin", address = "Oxford" } @Article{russell05, author = "Bertrand Russell", title = "On Denoting", journal = "Mind", year = 1905, volume = 14, pages = "479--493", note = "Page references are to reprint in \citeasnoun{russell56}." } @InCollection{russell19, author = "Bertrand Russell", title = "Descriptions", booktitle = "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy", publisher = "George Allen and Unwin", year = 1919, address = "London" } @Article{salmon91, author = {Nathan Salmon}, title = {The Pragmatic Fallacy}, journal = {Philosophical Studies}, year = 1991, volume = 63, number = 1, pages = {83--97} } @Article{sharvy69, author = "Richard Sharvy", title = "Things", journal = "The Monist", year = 1969, volume = 53, number = 3, pages = "488--504" } @Article{sharvy80, author = "Richard Sharvy", title = "A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions", journal = "Philosophical Review", year = 1980, volume = 89, number = 4, month = "October", pages = "607--623" } @Article{stanley99, author = "Jason Stanley and Zolt{\'a}n Gendler Szab{\'o}", title = "On Quantifier Domain Restriction", journal = "Mind and Language", year = 2000, volume = 15, pages = "219--261", annote = "They argue for (i) the existence of a domain variable in the logical form, and (ii) the domain variable combines semantically with the noun rather than the determiner." } @Article{strawson50, author = "P. F. Strawson", title = "On Referring", journal = "Mind", year = 1950, volume = 59, pages = "320--344" } @InCollection{wiggins65, author = "David Wiggins", title = "Identity Statements", booktitle = "Analytical Philosophy", publisher = "Basil Blackwell", year = 1965, editor = "R. J. Butler", series = "second", address = "Oxford" } @Article{williams80, author = "Edwin Williams", title = "Predication", journal = "Linguistic Inquiry", year = 1980, volume = 11, number = 1, pages = "203--238" } @Article{williams83, author = "Edwin Williams", title = "Semantic Vs. Syntactic Categories", journal = "Linguistics and Philosophy", year = 1983, volume = 6, pages = "423--446", annote = "Wants to show that semantic and syntactic categories cut across each other. First, shows that there are predicative NPs, i.e., NPs that are semantically like verbs and adjectives. His examples involve mostly indefinite descriptions and pseudo-clefts. From Williams (1980), we know that subjects must c-command their predicates. That it why `A doctor was become by John' is bad, though `A doctor was seen by John' is fine. Can't have simple universals in predicative position: `An acorn grew into every tree' is bad, though `An acorn grew from every tree' is fine (though false). Now he argues against Higgins identity reading of specificational pseudo-clefts. Basically, Williams says that in the ``specificational'' readings, the free relative is the predicate: we have here subject-predicate inversion. He argues for the view by giving predication test involving subject-aux inversion. (Very convincing!) Final argument from predicative NPs: `be' can't always be ``equative'' in `NP be NP' cases, since then we couldn't capture the difference between: `My house is a certain color' and `Blue is a certain color'. The analysis offered for the forst is that `a certain color' is quantifiying over predicates (as in `My house has been every color') while in second case the indefinite is just a predicate." } @Article{williams97a, author = "Edwin Williams", title = "The Asymmetry of Predication", journal = "Texas Linguistic Forum", year = 1997, volume = 38, pages = "323--333" } @Article{wilson78, author = {George Wilson}, title = {On Definite and Indefinite Descriptions}, journal = "Philosophical Review", year = 1978, volume = 87, pages = {48--76} } @Article{wilson91, author = "George Wilson", title = "Reference and Pronominal Descriptions", journal = "Journal of Philosophy", year = 1991, volume = 88, number = 7, pages = "359--387" } %-------------------BOOKS--------------------------------- @Book{bauerle83, title = "Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language", booktitle = "Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language", publisher = "Walter de Gruyter", year = 1983, editor = "Rainer {B\"{a}uerle} and Christoph Schwarze and Arnim von Stechow", address = "Berlin" } @PhdThesis{carlson77b, author = "Gregory N. Carlson", title = "Reference to Kinds in English", school = "University of Massachusetts", year = 1977, address = "Amherst", note = "Published (1980) by Garland Press, New York" } @Book{chierchia95, author = "Gennaro Chierchia", title = "Dynamics of Meaning", publisher = "University of Chicago Press", year = 1995, address = "Chicago" } @Book{diesing92, author = "Molly Diesing", title = "Indefinites", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1992, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{dummett73, author = "Michael Dummett", title = "Frege: Philosophy of Language", publisher = "Harvard University Press", year = 1973, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{geach62, author = "Peter Geach", title = "Reference and Generality", publisher = "Cornell University Press", year = 1962, address = "Ithaca", note = "Page references are to the third edition (1980)" } @Book{grice89, author = "Paul Grice", title = "Studies in the Way of Words", publisher = "Harvard University Press", year = 1989, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @PhdThesis{heim82, author = "Irene Heim", title = "The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases", school = "University of Massachusetts", address = "Amherst", year = 1982 } @PhdThesis{higgins73, author = "Francis Roger Higgins", title = "The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English", school = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", year = 1973, note = "Published (1979) by Garland Press, New York" } @Book{hoeksema96, editor = "Jacob Hoeksema", title = "Partitives: Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Partitive and Related Constructions", booktitle = "Partitives: Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Partitive and Related Constructions", publisher = "Mouton De Gruyter", year = 1996, number = 14, series = "Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics", address = "Berlin" } @Book{jackendoff72, author = "Ray Jackendoff", title = "Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1972, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @PhdThesis{kadmon87, author = "Nirit Kadmon", title = "On Unique and Non-Unique Reference and Asymmetric Quantification", school = "University of Massachusetts", year = 1987, address = "Amherst", note = "Published (1992) by Garland Press, New York" } @Article{kadmon90, author = {Nirit Kadmon}, title = {Uniqueness}, journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy}, year = 1990, volume = 13, number = 3, pages = {273--324} } @Book{larsonandsegal, author = "Richard Larson and Gabriel Segal", title = "Knowledge of Meaning", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1995, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{martinich96, title = "The Philosophy of Language", booktitle = "The Philosophy of Language", editor = "A. P. Martinich", publisher = "Oxford University Press", year = 1990, address = "Oxford", edition = "Second" } @Book{mccawley81, author = "James D. McCawley", title = "Everything That Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Logic* *but were ashamed to ask", publisher = "University of Chicago Press", year = 1981, address = "Chicago" } @Book{neale90, author = "Stephen Neale", title = "Descriptions", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1990, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{russell03, author = "Bertrand Russell", title = "The Principles of Mathematics", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", year = 1903, month = "Cambridge, England" } @Book{russell19a, author = "Bertrand Russell", booktitle = "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy", title = "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy", publisher = "George Allen and Unwin", year = 1919, address = "London" } @Book{russellandwhitehead, author = "Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell", title = "Principia Mathematica", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", year = 1925, volume = "I", address = "Cambridge, England", edition = "Second" } @Book{sainsbury79, author = "R. M. Sainsbury", title = "Russell", publisher = "Routledge \& Kegan Paul", year = 1979, address = "London" } @PhdThesis{fintel94, author = "Kai von Fintel", title = "Restriction on Quantifier Domains", school = "University of Massachusetts", year = 1994, address = "Amherst" } @PhdThesis{wilkinson91, author = "Karina Wilkinson", title = "Studies in the Semantics of Generic Noun Phrases", school = "University of Massachusetts", year = 1991, address = "Amherst" } %------------------ COLLECTIONS ------------------------------- @Book{carlsonandpelletier95, title = "The Generic Book", booktitle = "The Generic Book", editor = "Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier", publisher = "University of Chicago Press", year = 1995, address = "Chicago" } @Book{cartwright87, author = "Richard Cartwright", title = "Philosophical Essays", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{hintikka73, title = {Approaches to Natural Language}, booktitle = {Approaches to Natural Language}, editor = {J. Hintikka and J. Moravcsik and P. Suppes}, publisher = {Reidel}, year = 1973, address = {Dordrecht} } @Book{lappin96, title = "The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory", booktitle = "The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory", publisher = "Blackwell", year = 1996, editor = "Shalom Lappin", address = "Oxford" } @Book{lewis98, author = "David Lewis", title = "Papers in Philosophical Logic", publisher = "Cambridge University Press", year = 1998, address = "Cambridge" } @Book{montague74, editor = "Richmond H. Thomason", title = "Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of {Richard Montague}", publisher = "Yale University Press", year = 1974, address = "New Haven" } @Book{ostertag, title = "Definite Descriptions: A Reader", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1998, editor = "Gary Ostertag", address = "Cambridge, MA" } @Book{russell56, author = "Bertrand Russell", title = "Logic and Knowledge", publisher = "Unwin Hyman", year = 1956, OPTeditor = "Robert C. Marsh", address = "London" } @Book{reuland87, title = "The Representation of (In)definiteness", booktitle = "The Representation of (In)definiteness", editor = "Eric J. Reuland and Alice G. B. ter Meulen", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 1987, address = "Cambridge, MA" }