Today, I received my author’s copy of the book Descriptions and Beyond, edited by Marga Reimer and Anne Bezuidenhout:
The book contains my paper “Would You Believe It? The King of France is Back! (Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions)” [uncorrected proof, if you can't wait for your copy of the book] and many other goodies. Here’s the table of contents:
Part I: Incomplete Descriptions
1. Descriptions and Situations, Francois Recanati 2. An Abuse of Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions, Ernie Lepore 3. This, That, and the Other, Stephen Neale
Part II: The Referential/Attributive Distinction
4. Descriptions: Points of Reference, Kent Bach 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Nathan Salmon 6. Descriptive Indexicals and Indexical Descriptions, Geoffrey Nunberg 7. The Case for Referential Descriptions, Michael Devitt
Part III: Presupposition and Truth-Value Gaps
8. Would you Believe It? The King of France is Back! (Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions), Kai von Fintel 9. Descriptions, Linguistic Topic/Comment and Negative Existentials, Jay Atlas
Part IV: Representation of Definites and Indefinites in Semantic Theory
10. Referring Descriptions, Mark Sainsbury 11. The Vernacular and the Omniscient Observer of History, Joseph Almog 12. On a Unitary Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions, Peter Ludlow and Gabriel Segal
Part V: Anaphoric Pronouns and Descriptions, Indefinites and Dynamic Semantics/Syntax
13. Indefinites and Anaphoric Independence: A Case for Dynamic Semantics and Pragmatics?, Richard Breheny 14. Grounding Dynamic Semantics, Paul Dekker 15. Pronouns as Definites, Craige Roberts 16. Anaphoric Definite Descriptions, Alice ter Meulen 17. Indefinites and Scope Choice, Ruth Kempson & Wilfried Meyer-Viol
Part VI: Names and Descriptions
18. Descriptive Descriptive Names, Robin Jeshion 19. Descriptively Introduced Names, Marga Reimer
References Index
Congratulations for your book! I shall buy one sample as soon as I have the money to.
Alhtough I miss the names of your usual colaborators, i.e., Heim, Kratzer, Fox and Iatridou, I am glad that tou, Kent Bach and others are in this volume.
I wish you a great editorial success!
August 12th, 2004, at 1:30 pm #