Contents
I\tFoundational concepts 1
1\tThe\tmeaning of meaning 3
2\tReferring, denoting, and expressing 15
3\tTruth and inference 35
4\tThe logic of truth 53
II\tWord meanings 77
5\tWord senses 79
6\tLexical sense relations 107
7\tComponents of lexical meaning 119
III\tImplicature 137
8\tGrice’s theory of implicature 139
9\tPragmatic inference after Grice 161
10\tIndirect speech acts 179
11\tConventional implicature and use-conditional meaning 197
IV\tCompositional semantics 215
12\tHow\tmeanings are composed 217
13\tModeling compositionality 229
14\tQuantifiers 253
15\tIntensional contexts 273
V\tModals, conditionals, and causation 291
16\tModality 293
17\tEvidentiality 317
18\tBecause 329
19\tConditionals 347
VI\tTense & aspect 377
20\tAspect and Aktionsart 379
21\tTense 405
22\tVarieties of the perfect 427
References 453
Index 475