Donald Davidson's truth-theoretic semantics / Ernie Lepore, Kirk Ludwig
Imprint
Oxford : Clarendon, 2009
Descript
xii, 346 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Truth-theoretic semantics: basic framework -- Quantifiers -- Implementation of the extension of the truth theory to quantifiers -- Proper names, indexicals, and simple demonstratives -- Complex demonstratives -- The semantics of quotation -- Adjectives and adverbs -- The simple tenses of state and event verbs -- Temporal adverbials and quantifiers -- Tense in sentential complements and the perfect tenses -- Opaque contexts: indirect discourse and attitude sentences -- Non-declarative sentences -- Semantic structure and logical form -- Truth and correspondence