Partee’s Reflections

I strongly recommend that you read the following paper, which will give you an invaluable overview of the history of natural language semantics.

Barbara Partee: 2005. “Reflections of a Formal Semanticist as of Feb 2005″. ms.

This essay is a longer version of the introductory essay in (Partee 2004). The introductory essay was first written in this long form in February 2003, but had to be cut down to about half the size to fit in the book. By agreement with the publisher, I have waited until a year after the publication of the book, actually thirteen months, until February 2005, before putting the long version onto the internet. I have made a few revisions in 2005, partly in response to comments to the published version which I received from Paul Postal, Jeff Pelletier, and Larry Horn, for which I thank them.

I’ve given this version this peculiar date-including title both to distinguish it from the original published version and because it may be further revised in the future. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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