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  1. Quantifiers in Language and Logic.Stanley Peters & Dag Westerståhl - 2006 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role.
  2. Introduction to Montague Semantics.David R. Dowty, Robert Eugene Wall & Stanley Peters - 1981 - Springer.
    INTRODUCTION Linguists who work within the tradition of transformational generative grammar tend to regard semantics as an intractable, perhaps ultimately ...
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  3. Reciprocal expressions and the concept of reciprocity.Mary Dalrymple, Makoto Kanazawa, Yookyung Kim, Sam McHombo & Stanley Peters - 1998 - Linguistics and Philosophy 21 (2):159-210.
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    A truth-conditional formulation of Karttunen's account of presupposition.Stanley Peters - 1979 - Synthese 40 (2):301-316.
    Karttunen's seminal 1973 article Presuppositions of compound sentences, lays the groundwork for the elegant and fruitful theory of this subject which he subsequently presented in (1974). In (1973, pp. 185–8), however, he fallaciously argued that the regularities he discovered concerning the behavior of and, or, and if ... then in English cannot be embodied in any three-valued logic giving a truth-functional interpretation to these connectives. The present paper refutes Karttunen's argument by exhibiting an interpretation with the desired properties, and shows (...)
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    Anaphora and Quantification in Situation Semantics.Jean Mark Gawron & Stanley Peters - 1990 - Cambridge University Press.
    A principal goal of this book is to develop and apply the Situation Semantics framework. Jean Mark Gawron and Stanley Peters adopt a version of the theory in which meanings are built up via syntactically driven semantic composition rules. They provide a substantial treatment of English incorporating treatments of pronomial anaphora, quantification, donkey anaphora, and tense. The book focuses on the semantics of pronomial anaphora and quantification. The authors argue that the ambiguities of sentences with pronouns cannot be adequately accounted (...)
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    The semantics of exceptives.Stanley Peters & Dag Westerståhl - 2023 - Linguistics and Philosophy 46 (2):197-235.
    This paper gives a uniform account of the meaning of generalizations with explicit exceptions that employ the prepositions “but”, “except”, and “except for”. Our theory is that exceptives depend on generalizations, which can but need not be universal, whose generality they limit, and some of whose exceptions they comment on. Every generalization intrinsically partitions its domain of applicability into regular cases, which are as it says to expect, and exceptions, which are not. A generalization’s exceptions are instances that falsify it (...)
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    On some formal properties of metarules.Hans Uszkoreit & Stanley Peters - 1986 - Linguistics and Philosophy 9 (4):477 - 494.
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    Situation Theory and its Applications Vol.Peter Aczel, David Israel, Yosuhiro Katagiri & Stanley Peters (eds.) - 1993 - CSLI Publications.
    Situation Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1 . Robin Cooper, Kuniaki Mukai, and John Perry (Eds.). Lecture Notes No. 22. ...
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  9. Goals of Linguistic Theory.Stanley Peters - 1974 - Foundations of Language 12 (2):291-295.
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    Situation Theory and its Applications: Volume 3.Peter Aczel, David Israel, Stanley Peters & Yasuhiro Katagiri (eds.) - 1990 - Stanford, CA, USA: Center for the Study of Language and Inf.
    Situation theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science and AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, it aims to provide a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all these fields. Unlike Shannon-Weaver type theories of information, which are purely quantitative theories, situation theory aims at providing tools for the analysis of the specific content of a situation. The question addressed (...)
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    Re-examination of the serial position effect.Murray Glanzer & Stanley C. Peters - 1962 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 64 (3):258.
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    Conventional Implicature. Syntax and Semantics, Volume 11, Presupposition.Lauri Karttunen, Stanley Peters, Choon-kyu Oh, David A. Dinneen, Gerald Gazdar & Janet Dean Fodor - 1981 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 46 (2):412-415.
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    Processes, Beliefs, and Questions: Essays on Formal Semantics of Natural Language and Natural Language Processing.Stanley Peters & Esa Saarinen (eds.) - 1981 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Reidel.
    SECTION I In 1972, Donald Davison and Gilbert Hannan wrote in the introduction to the volume Semantics of Natural Language: "The success of linguistics in treating natural languages as formal ~yntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a parallel or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independently, many philosophers and logicians have recently been applying formal semantic methods to structures increasingly like natural languages. While differences in training, method and vocabulary tend to (...)
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