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Listed below, with links for whatever is downloadable:

1. The History of Formal Semantics

In Russian: For those who speak Russian, I gave a non-technical talk in Russian on April 19, 2012, on the birth of formal semantics from linguistics and philosophy. It's for non-specialists, in the polit.ru public lectures series. There was about an hour of questions and answers after the talk.
"Формальная семантика как порождение лингвистики и философии"
Information, video, and photos here: http://polit.ru/article/2012/03/28/anons_partee/
Video plus transcript, with different photos: http://polit.ru/article/2012/05/18/Partee/

Everything else on this topic is in English.

Partee, Barbara H. 2015. The Garden of Eden period for deep structure and semantics. In 50 Years Later: Reflections on Chomsky's Aspects, eds. Ángel J.  Gallego and Dennis Ott, 187-198. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.[ PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2015. Asking what a meaning does: David Lewis’s contributions to semantics. In A Companion to David Lewis, eds. Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer, 328-344. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.[ PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2014. A brief history of the syntax-semantics interface in Western formal linguistics. Semantics-Syntax Interface 1.1:1-20. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2013. The Amsterdam three and their part in a glorious history In The Dynamic, Inquisitive, and Visionary Life of ϕ, ?ϕ, and ◊ϕ: A Festschrift for Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof, and Frank Veltman, eds. Maria Aloni, Michael Franke and Floris Roelofsen. Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. In press. A brief history of the syntax-semantics interface in Western formal linguistics. Semantics-Syntax Interface.  [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. In press. The starring role of quantifiers in the history of formal semantics. In The Logica Yearbook 2012, eds. Vit Punčochár and Petr Svarny. London: College Publications. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2013. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979-1988. In From Grammar to Meaning: The Spontaneous Logicality of Language, eds. Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto, 13-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Formal semantics: Origins, issues, early impact. In Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic Yearbook of Cogntion, Logic, and Communication. Vol. 6 (2010), eds. B.H. Partee, M. Glanzberg and J. Skilters, 1-52. Lawrence, KS: New Prairie Press. [PDF]

Zou, Chongli. 2007. From logic to language -- Visiting Professor Barbara Hall Partee. A 2005-06 interview by Zou Chongli with answers written by BHP, edited by Zou Chongli. Contemporary Linguistics (China) 2:151-165.  [PDF of Englsih version]   [PDF of Published version in Chinese]

Partee, Barbara H. 2005. Reflections of a formal semanticist as of Feb 2005. Ms. (longer version of introductory essay in 2004 book) [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. 2006. Richard Montague (1930 - 1971). In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed., ed. Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. V. 8, pp. 255-57. [PDF version]

B.H.Partee with H.L.W. Hendriks (1997) "Montague grammar", in Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds., Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam and Cambridge, MA: Elsevier and The MIT Press. 5-91. [PDF]

"The development of formal semantics in linguistic theory", in Shalom Lappin, ed., The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Series, Oxford:Blackwell (1996), 11-38. [PDF]

"Possible Worlds in Model-Theoretic Semantics: A Linguistic Perspective", in Sture Allen, ed., Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts, and Sciences: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter (l988) 93-l23. [PDF version]

"Linguistic metatheory" (revised) in A Survey of Linguistic Science, Second edition, ed., W.O. Dingwall, Greylock Publishers, Stamford, Conn. (1978) 63-82.

Partee, Barbara Hall. 1971. Linguistic metatheory. In A Survey of Linguistic Science, ed. William Orr Dingwall, 650-680. College Park, MD: Linguistics Program, University of Maryland.

    Slides from talks that are not yet written as articles or that differ in some ways from similar articles:

    (a) General history of formal semantics talks.  The most similar published paper is Partee 2011, Formal semantics: Origins, issues, early impact.

The Baggett Lectures, University of Maryland, November 2012. Series title: The History of Formal Semantics: Evolving Ideas about Logical Form, Linguistic Form, and the Nature of Semantics  [PDF of Abstract]

Course on Formal Semantics and The History of Formal Semantics; some lectures straight formal semantics, some lectures historical, Spring 2012 at the Russian State Humanities University (RGGU). See my RGGU 2012 course website.

2011 Wroclaw: "The History of Formal Semantics", Conference, University of Wroclaw, Dec 2-4, 2011. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2011. The Semantics Adventure. Ms., MIT 150th Symposium Panel May 3: The Golden Age – a look at the original roots of AI, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Linguistics. Cambridge, MA. (unpublished talk) [PDF]  (a 10-minute talk, for non-specialists)

TABU Dag Groningen June 2011: The History of Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Influences from and to Linguistics and Philosophy. Includes some remarks about Evert Beth and other Dutch contributors to the history. [PDF]

Oslo 2011: “The Origins of Formal Semantics from Linguistics and Philosophy: Humanities, Science, or Both?” The third annual “Academy Lecture in the Humanities and Social Sciences” of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, March 15, 2011. There are a couple of nice photos in the Academy newsletter here.  This talk was for a mixed audience of Academy members and guests. [PDF]

Video only: April 2010, Riga: “Is This a Good Time for Formal Semantics?”: a 10-minute video in the “Is This a Good Time?” series, put together by two young journalism scholars in Riga. You aren’t told what the question is until you come to the interview, then you have 5 minutes to think, and then the cameras start rolling! And there are no pauses or second takes – it is what it is.   Video is here:  http://vimeo.com/isthisagoodtime/barbarapartee   or http://vimeo.com/20664367 .

Oslo 2009: Partee, Barbara H. 2009. Perspectives on Semantics: How philosophy and syntax have shaped the development of formal semantics, and vice versa. In Conference "Russian in Contrast", Special guest lecture. University of Oslo, Oslo. [Video and Poster] ; [PDF version of Power Point slides].

LSA 2014 (NOT just formal semantics: on the history of semantics and pragmatics, mainly in the US, in the 90 years since the founding of the LSA). "Semantics and Pragmatics Then and Now", LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Jan 3, 2014. Part of the 90th Anniversary celebration. [PDF]

    (c) History of semantics of quantification, and on 'natural language has no logic' claims.

Moscow State University 2014: “The Starring Role of Quantifiers in the History of Formal Semantics.” Seminar 'Some Applications of Mathematical Methods to Linguistics', March 22, 2014. [PDF]

MIT 2013: “The Starring Role of Quantifiers in the History of Formal Semantics.”  MIT Colloquium Oct 25, 2013.  [PDF]

Cambridge University 2013: “The Starring Role of Quantifiers in the History of Formal Semantics”. 1-day conference on “Formal Approaches to Linguistic Theory”, Sept 25, 2013. [PDF]

LOGICA 2012: Partee, Barbara H. 2012. The History of Formal Semantics, for an audience of logicians, at LOGICA 2012, Hejnice, June 18-22, 2012.  [PDF]  (The written paper that followed, Partee (in press) for The Logica Yearbook, was more specifically about the history of quantification in formal semantics)

UMass 2011: Partee, Barbara H. 2011. The History of Formal Semantics, with special attention to quantification. Presentation in Angelika Kratzer's Linguistics 720 proseminar, September 6, 2011.  (unpublished talk). [Power point slide show]  [4-up PDF handout]

    (d) History of the issues of 'Semantics: Mathematics or Psychology?', psychologism vs anti-psychologism, 'internalism', etc.

Harvard, 9th Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture, April 28, 2014. The History of Formal Semantics: Changing Notions of Linguistic Competence. [PDF]  [Video on YouTube]

British Academy 2013: "How Syntax and Semantics Have Provoked Different Views of Linguistic Competence." Conference “The Cognitive Revolution 60 Years On”, London, Sept 26-27, 2013.  [PDF]

Princeton 2013:  "Changing Perspectives on the 'Mathematics or Psychology' Question." Philosophy Workshop on "Semantics – Mathematics or Psychology?" Sept 14-15, 2013. [PDF]

Hinzen Workshop St Petersburg 2013: “Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism in the History of Formal Semantics.” Workshop on the Status of Semantics in the History of Generative Grammar, part of Conference Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6, St. Petersburg, Russia. June 13, 2013.  [PDF]

Arché 2013: “The History of Formal Semantic Practice and its Relation to Foundational Problems”. Philosophy of Semantics Workshop, May 25-27, 2013, Arché Center, University of St Andrews.   [PDF]

Rutgers 2012: "Psychologism and Anti-psychologism in the history of formal semantics", RuCCS colloquium,. October 23, 2012.  Includes quotes from various years about Chomsky's attitudes toward semantics. [PDF]

    (e) Syntax-semantics interface issues (other than quantification)

SPE6 2013: "Challenges to Compositionality as a Driving Force in the History of Formal Semantics", Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 10-14, 2013.  [PDF]

2. The Russian Genitive of Negation

NSF grant project 2004-2008:    Russian Genitive of Negation

NSF Grant BCS-0418311: The Russian Genitive of Negation: Integration of Lexical & Compositional Semantics.  Barbara H. Partee, PI, and Vladimir Borschev, co-PI. September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2008.

    NSF Grant Proposal Project Description, Jan 2004.  [PDF version]   and References Cited [PDF version]
    Final Report, submitted summer 2009.  [PDF version]

Papers

Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov G., and Yanovich, Igor. In press. Genitive of negation, genitive of intensionality, and subjunctive in Russian. Journal of Language and Verbal Behavior - Jazyk i Rečevaja Dejatel'nost'.

Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and Yanovich, Igor. 2012. The Role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: Genitive of Negation and Genitive of Intensionality. In The Russian Verb. Oslo Studies in Language 4(1). eds. A. Grønn and A. Pazel'skaya. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and Yanovich, Igor. 2011. Russian Genitive of Negation alternations: The role of verb semantics. Scando-Slavica 57.2:135-159. [PDF]

Borschev, V., Paducheva, E.V., Partee, B.H., Testelets, Y.G., and Yanovich, I.S. 2010. On semantic bleaching and compositionality: Subtraction or addition? (On the bleaching of "lexical verbs" in Russian negated existential sentences). In Proceedings of Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 26, Bar Ilan University (IATL 26), ed. Yehuda N. Falk. Jerusalem. [PDF]

Borschev, V.B., Paducheva, E.V., Partee, B.H., Testelets, Y.G., and Yanovich, I.S. 2009. Sintaksicheskoe, semanticheskoe i pragmaticheskoe otricanie v russkom jazyke [Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic negation in Russian]. In Logicheskij Analiz Jazyka: Assercija and Negacija [The Logical Analysis of Language: Assertion and Negation], ed. N.D. Arutjunova, 129-143. Moscow: Indrik. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H., and Vladimir Borschev. In press. Verbal Semantic Shifts under Negation, Intensionality, and Imperfectivity: Russian Genitive Objects. In Cross-linguistic semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality, eds. Lotte Hogeweg et al. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub.

Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, E.V., Partee, Barbara H., Testelets, Yakov, and Yanovich, Igor. 2008. Russian genitives, non-referentiality, and the property-type hypothesis. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Stony Brook Meeting 2007 (FASL 16), eds. Andrei Antonenko, John F. Bailyn and Christina Bethin, 48-67. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publishers. Longer article in preparation: comments welcome. [PDF version]

Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2008. Bytijnye i lokativnye predlozhenija – chto ix razlichaet? Tema-rematicheskaya struktura ili diateza? [Existential and locative sentences – what distinguishes them? Theme-rheme structure or diathesis?]. In Dinamicheskie modeli: Slovo. Predlozhenie. Tekst. Sbornik v chest’ E.V. Paduchevoj [Dynamic Models: Word. Sentence. Text. A Collection of Articles in Honor of E.V. Paducheva], eds. A. E. Kibrik and N.A. Nikolina, 137-153. Moscow: Jazyki Slavjanskix Kul’tur. [PDF]

Borschev, V.B. , and Partee, B.H. 2008. Bytijnye, locativnye i drugie blizkie k nim predloženija. (Existential, locative, and other sentences related to them). In Fonetika i Nefonetika. K 70-letiju Sandro V. Kodzasova (Phonetics and Non-phonetics. For the 70th Birthday of Sandro V. Kodzasov), eds. A.V. Arxipov et al., 552-564. Moscow: Jazyki Slavjanskix Kul’tur.[ PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2008. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics. In Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, ed. Susan Rothstein, 291-317. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF] manuscript revised (final) 2007

Borschev, Vladimir, Elena V. Paducheva, Barbara H. Partee, Yakov G. Testelets, and Igor Yanovich. 2006. Sentential and constituent negation in Russian BE-sentences revisited. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Princeton Meeting 2005 (FASL 14), eds. James Lavine, Steven L. Franks, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva and Hana Filip, 50-65. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. [PDF version]

Handout: The genitive of negation in Russian: Multiple perspectives on a multi-faceted problem, Barbara H. Partee and Vladimir Borschev, invited talk for the inaugural meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, Sept 8-10, 2006. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H., and Borschev, Vladimir. 2006. Information structure, perspectival structure, diathesis alternation, and the Russian genitive of Negation. In Proceedings of Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa 9), Besenyőtelek, Hungary, August 24–26, 2006, eds. Beáta Gyuris, László Kálmán, Chris Piñón and Károly Varasdi, 120-129. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Theoretical Linguistics Programme, Eötvös Loránd University. [PDF version] Revised handout which supersedes what's in the proceedings where they differ: [PDF version]    ***And wonderful photos by Kata Balogh, Barbara and Volodja, and other participants, of the conference and of associated bird-watching and other excursions (thanks to Beáta Gyuris!) -- HERE ***

appeared in 2004 but officially 2002:  Borschev, Vladimir and Barbara H. Partee (2002) The Russian genitive of negation: Theme-rheme structure or perspective structure? Journal of Slavic Linguistics 10, 105-44. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. and Vladimir Borschev. 2002. Genitive of negation and scope of negation in Russian existential sentences. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Ann Arbor Meeting 2001 (FASL 10), ed. Jindrich Toman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. 181-200. [PDF version]

Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2002. O semantike bytijnyx predloženij (On the semantics of existential sentences). Semiotika i Informatika 37 (Moscow:VINITI):59-77. [PDF Version].

Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2002. The Russian genitive of negation in existential sentences: the role of Theme-Rheme structure reconsidered. In Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague (nouvelle série), eds. Eva Hajicová, Petr Sgall, Jirí Hana and Tomáš Hoskovec, 185-250. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. [PDF Version]

Borschev, Vladimir and Barbara H. Partee (1998). Formal and lexical semantics and the genitive in negated existential sentences in Russian. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 6: The Connecticut Meeting 1997, ed. Z"eljko Boškovic', Steven Franks and William Snyder, 75-96. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.  [PDF Version]  

3. Genitives/Possessives, including 'genitive of measure'

Partee, Barbara H., and Borschev, Vladimir. 2012. Dva stakana moloka: Substances and containers in Genitive of Measure constructions in Russian. Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii 24.2:140-166.  [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H., and Borschev, Vladimir. 2012. Sortal, relational, and functional interpretations of nouns and Russian container constructions. Journal of Semantics. [PDF]

Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Genitiv mery v russkom jazyke, tipy i sorta [The genitive of measure in Russian, Types and sorts]. In Slovo i jazyk. Sbornik statej k 80-letiju akademika Ju.D.Apresjana [Word and Language. A Collection of Articles for the 80th Birthday of Academician Ju.D. Apresjan], eds. I.M. Boguslavsky, L.L. Iomdin and L.P. Krysin, 95-137. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kultur'.

Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Genitives, types, and sorts. In Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax, eds. Ji-yung Kim, Yury A. Lander and Barbara H. Partee, 29-43. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. [PDF version]

Kim, Ji-yung, Lander, Yury A., and Partee, Barbara H. eds. (2004) Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax (UMOP 29). Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. pp. ix + 439

Partee, Barbara H. and Vladimir Borschev. 2003. Genitives, relational nouns, and argument-modifier ambiguity. In E. Lang C. Maienborn, C. Fabricius-Hansen (eds.), Modifying Adjuncts. (Series: Interface Explorations). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 67-112 [PDF version]

Borschev, Vladimir and Barbara H. Partee. 2001. Genitive modifiers, sorts, and metonymy. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24/2 (special issue on negation guest-edited by Per Anker Jensen): 140-160. [PDF Version].

Partee, Barbara H. and Vladimir Borschev. 2001. Some puzzles of predicate possessives. To appear in Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse. A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, ed. R.M. Harnish and Istvan Kenesei, 91-117. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. and Vladimir Borschev. 2000. Possessives, favorite, and coercion. In Proceedings of ESCOL99, ed. Anastasia Riehl and Rebecca Daly, 173-190. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University.   [PDF version]

Borschev, V.B. and B. H. Partee (1999). Semantika genitivnoj konstrukcii: raznye podxody k formalizacii. (Semantics of genitive construction: different approaches to formalization.) (in Russian) In Ekaterina V. Rakhilina and Yakov G. Testelets, eds., Tipologija i teorija jazyka: Ot opisanija k ob"jasneniju. K 60-letiju Aleksandra Evgenjevicha Kibrika. (Typology and Linguistic Theory: from Description to Explanation. For the 60th birthday of Aleksandr E. Kibrik.) Moscow: Jazyki Russkoj Kul'tury.159-172. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. and Vladimir Borschev (1998). Integrating lexical and formal semantics: Genitives, relational nouns, and type-shifting. In Proceedings of the Second Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and Computation, ed. Robin Cooper and Thomas Gamkrelidze, 229-241. Tbilisi: Center on Language, Logic, Speech, Tbilisi State University. [PDF Version]

Previous NSF grant project:   Genitives/Possessives, 1999-2003

NSF grant BCS-9905748: Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics: Genitives in English and Russian. Barbara H. Partee, PI, and Vladimir Borschev, co-PI. September 1, 1999 - August 31, 2003.

    NSF Grant Proposal Jan 1999 [PDF version]  

    Final Report on NSF grant BCS-9905748, March 2004:  [PDF version] (963KB)

4. Encyclopedia and Handbook articles

Partee, Barbara H. 2006. Richard Montague (1930 - 1971). In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed., ed. Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. V. 8, pp. 255-57. [PDF version]

B.H.Partee with H.L.W. Hendriks (1997) "Montague grammar", in Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds., Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam and Cambridge, MA: Elsevier and The MIT Press. 5-91.

5. Other New, Recent, and/or Downloadable

Note: A number of my older papers have now been turned into PDF form and put onto the Semantics Archive. For specific links, look down the list on this page. I will try to get more of my older papers on line in the future. In the meantime, if you have specific requests, I can try to have them scanned and turned into PDF files on request.

Partee, Barbara H. 2012. Remembering Aleksandr Evgenevich Kibrik. In Aleksandr Evgen'evich Kibrik. In Memoriam. Materialy nauchno-memorial'nyx chtenij pamjati A.E. Kibrika 9 dekabrja 2012 g., eds. V.I. Belikov et al., 104-105. Moscow: OTiPL, Philological Faculty, MGU imeni M.V.Lomonosova.

Partee, B.H., Glanzberg, M., and Skilters, J. eds. 2011. Formal semantics and pragmatics. Discourse, context and models. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication. vol. 6 (2010). Manhattan, KS: New Prairie Press. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Teaching formal semantics. In Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice, ed. Koenraad Kuiper, 40-50. London: Equinox Publishing.  [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Specificational copular sentences in Russian and English. In Russian in Contrast, Oslo Studies in Language 2(1), eds. Atle Grønn and Irena Marijanovic, 25-49. Oslo: University of Oslo (Open source publication). [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Privative adjectives: subsective plus coercion. In Presuppositions and Discourse: Essays offered to Hans Kamp, eds. Rainer Bäuerle, Uwe  Reyle and Thomas Ede Zimmermann, 273-285. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing. [PDF]

Partee, Barbara H. 2009. Formal semantics, lexical semantics, and compositionality: The puzzle of privative adjectives. Philologia 7:11-23.  [PDF of pre-final version]  [Errata] [PDF of whole issue]

Partee, Barbara H. 2009. The dynamics of adjective meaning. In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the Annual International Conference "Dialogue 2009" (Bekasovo, May 27-31, 2009), ed. A. E. Kibrik et al, 593-597. Moscow: Russian State Humanities University. [PDF of proceedings paper]  [PDF of handout that goes beyond published version].

Partee, Barbara H. 2008. Symmetry and symmetrical predicates. In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the International Conference “DIALOGUE" (2008), ed. A. E.  Kibrik et al, 606-611. Moscow: Institut Problem Informatiki. [PDF version of a 2009 handout that goes beyond what is in the published version.] 

Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Introduction to Section IV: Discourse structures and discourse modes. In Text, Time, and Context: Papers by Carlota S. Smith, eds. Helen Aristar Dry and Richard P. Meier. Dordrecht: Springer.  [PDF of non-final version]

Partee, Barbara H. 2008. Symmetry and symmetrical predicates. In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Papers from the International Conference “DIALOGUE" (2008), ed. A. E.  Kibrik et al, 606-611. Moscow: Institut Problem Informatiki. [PDF version of a 2009 handout that goes beyond what is in the published version.]

Partee, Barbara H. 2006. Do we need two basic types? In 40-60 puzzles for Manfred Krifka, eds. Hans-Martin Gaertner, Regine Eckardt, Renate Musan and Barbara Stiebels. Berlin: online: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/40-60-puzzles-for-krifka/ . [PDF version]

An unpublished seminar squib from 1985: "Dependent Plurals" are distinct from Bare Plurals. ms. 1985. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. 2005. Diathesis alternations and NP semantics. In East West Encounter: Second International Conference on Meaning <=> Text Theory, eds. Ju. D. Apresjan and L.L. Iomdin, 361-373. Moscow: Jazyki Slavjanskoj Kultury. [PDF version] [Power Point presentation]

Partee, Barbara H. 2006. A note on Mandarin possessives, demonstratives, and definiteness. In Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, eds. Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, 263-280. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF version]

Partee, Barbara H. (1998/2000). Copula Inversion Puzzles in English and Russian. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Seattle Meeting 1998, ed. Katarzyna Dziwirek, Herbert Coats, and Cynthia Vakareliyska, 361-395. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications (1998). Also in UMOP 23: Issues in Semantics and its Interface, ed. Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta, 198-208. Amherst: GLSA (2000). [PDF version]

6. Books

Stockwell, R.P, P. Schachter, and B.H. Partee, The Major Syntactic Structures of English. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.

Montague Grammar, edited, Academic Press, 1976.

Subject and Object in Modern English, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979  (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series)

Fundamentals of Mathematics for Linguists, Greylock Publishers, (and D.Reidel, Dordrecht), 1979.

Properties, Types and Meaning. Vol. I: Foundational Issues; Vol. II: Semantic Issues, ed. G. Chierchia, B. Partee and R. Turner, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.

Partee, Barbara H., Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, Mathematical Methods in Linguistics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Second printing, corrected first edition, 1993.

Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee, eds., Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995.

Partee, Barbara H. and Petr Sgall, editors, Discourse and Meaning: Papers in Honor of Eva Hajičová. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1996.

Hajičová, Eva, Barbara Partee, and Petr Sgall, (1998) Topic-focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers.

Portner, Paul and Barbara H. Partee, eds. (2002) Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. pp. x + 486

Browne, Wayles, Ji-Yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein, editors, (2003) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics #11: The Amherst Meeting 2002.  Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications. pp. xii + 568

Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers of Barbara Partee. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.  Pp.344

Kim, Ji-yung, Lander, Yury A., and Partee, Barbara H. eds. (2004) Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax (UMOP 29). Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. pp. ix + 439

Kamp, Hans and Barbara H. Partee, eds. (2004). Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning. Series: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, 11 Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 554

7. Other Publications in Print (1960's to 2000), some downloadable as noted

Hall, Barbara C. 1964. Review of Shaumyan, S., and P. A. Soboleva. 1963. Applikativnaja porozhdajushchaja model' i ischislenie transformatsij v russkom jazyke. (Moscow: Akademija nauk.) Language 40:397-410. 

Hall, Barbara C. 1965. Subject and Object in Modern English, MIT: Ph.D. dissertation.

"A mathematical model of transformational grammars", (with Seymour Ginsburg), Information and Control l5 (1969), 197-334.

"Negation, conjunction, and quantifiers: syntax vs. semantics", Foundations of Language, 6 (1970), 153-165.

"Opacity, coreference, and pronouns", Synthese 21 (1970) 359-385.

"On the requirement that transformations preserve meaning", Studies in Linguistic Semantics, ed. C.J. Fillmore and D.T. Langendoen, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1971) 1-21.

"Some transformational extensions of Montague grammar", Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973), 509-534. [PDF version]

"The semantics of belief-sentences", in J. Hintikka et al., eds., Approaches to Natural Language, D. Reidel, Dordrecht (1973) 309-336.

"Comments on Montague's paper", in J. Hintikka et al., op cit. (1973) 243-358.

"Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English", The Journal of Philosophy, 70, no. 18 (1973) 601-609. Available online at: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%2819731025%2970%3A18%3C601%3ASSABTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

"Opacity and scope", in M. Munitz and P. Unger, eds., Semantics and Philosophy, NYU Press, New York (1974). [PDF version]

"Montague grammar and transformational grammar", Linguistic Inquiry 6.2 (1975) 203-300.

"Deletion and variable binding", in Edward Keenan, ed., Formal Semantics of Natural Languages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1975) 16-34. [PDF version]

"Comments on C.J.Fillmore's and N.Chomsky's papers" in  The Scope of American Linguistics, ed. R.Austerlitz, 197- 209. Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press (1975)

"Semantics and syntax: the search for constraints" in Cleah Rameh, ed., Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown: Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics (1976) 99-110.

"John is easy to please", in Antonio Zampolli, ed., Linguistic Structures Processing, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.(1977) 281-312.

"Possible worlds semantics and linguistic theory", The Monist, 60 (1977) 303-326.

Bennett, Michael and Barbara Partee (1972/78) "Towards the logic of tense and aspect in English". Technical report (1972), System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; published with a new appendix (1978) by Indiana Linguistics Club, Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington.

"Linguistic metatheory" (revised) in A Survey of Linguistic Science, ed., W.O. Dingwall, Greylock Publishers, Stamford, Conn. (1978) 63-82.

Partee, Barbara H. 1978. Bound variables and other anaphors. In Theoretical Issues In Natural Language Processing 2 (TINLAP-2), ed. David L. Waltz, 79-85. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois. Reprinted in Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by Barbara H. Partee. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 110-121. [PDF Version]

"Montague grammar and the well-formedness constraint", in Syntax and Semantics, vol. 10, ed. F. Heny and H. Schnelle, Academic Press, New York (1979) 275-313.

"Constraining Montague grammar: a framework and a fragment", in S. Davis and M. Mithun, eds., Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar, University of Texas Press, Austin (1979) 51-101. [PDF version]

"Semantics -- mathematics or psychology?", in Bäuerle, Egli, and von Stechow, eds., Semantics from Different Points of View, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (l980) 1-14. [PDF version]

Emmon Bach and Barbara Partee, "Anaphora and semantic structure", in J. Kreiman and A. Ojeda, eds., Papers from the Parasession on Pronouns and Anaphora, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago (1980) 1-28. [PDF version]

"Montague grammar, mental representation, and reality", in S. Ohman and S. Kanger, eds., Philosophy and Grammar, D. Reidel, Dordrecht (1980) 59-78. Reprinted in P. French et al., eds., Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (1979).

Barbara Partee and Emmon Bach, "Quantification, pronouns and VP anaphora", in Formal Methods in the Study of Language, ed. J. Groenendijk, T. Janssen, M. Stokhof, Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam (1981) 445-481. Reprinted in Groenendijk, Janssen and Stokhof (eds), (1984) Truth, Interpretation and Information. Dordrecht: Foris. [PDF version]

"Belief sentences and the limits of semantics", in S. Peters and E. Saarinen, eds., Processes, Beliefs, and Questions, D. Reidel, Dordrecht (1982) 87-106.

"Intensional logic and natural language", in T. Simon and R. Scholes, eds., Language, Mind and Brain, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ (1982) 65-74.

Mats Rooth and Barbara Partee, "Conjunction, type ambiguity, and wide scope or", in D.Flickinger, M. Macken, and N. Wiegand (eds.) Proceedings of the First West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford Linguistics Assn., Stanford (1982) 353-362. [PDF version]

Barbara Partee and Mats Rooth, "Generalized conjunction and type ambiguity", in R. Bäuerle, C. Schwarze, and A. von Stechow (eds.) Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (1983) 361-383. [PDF version]

"Montague grammar and issues of psychological reality", in A. Orenstein and R. Stern, eds., Developments in Semantics, Haven Publications, New York (l983) 145-165.

"Compositionality", in F. Landman and F. Veltman, eds., Varieties of Formal Semantics: Proceedings of the 4th Amsterdam Colloquium, Sept. 1982. Foris Pubs., Dordrecht (1984) 281-311.

"Nominal and temporal anaphora" Linguistics and Philosophy 7 (1984) 243-286. [PDF version]

William Marsh and Barbara Partee, "How non-context-free is variable binding?" in M. Cobler, S. MacKaye and M. Wescoat, eds., Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics III (1984) 179-190. [PDF version]

"Research goals in information, computation, and cognition", in B. Partee, S. Peters, and R. Thomason, eds., Report of Workshop on Information and Representation, Stanford University (l985) 118-124.

"Situations, worlds, and contexts", in Linguistics and Philosophy 8. (l985) 53-58.

"Ambiguous pseudoclefts with unambiguous 'be'", in S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, J. McDonough, eds., Proceedings of NELS l6 (l986) 354-366.

"Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles", in J. Groenendijk, D. de Jongh, and M. Stokhof, eds., Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers, GRASS 8, Foris, Dordrecht (l987), 115-143.

"Semantic Facts and Psychological Facts", Mind and Language 3, 43-52 (1988).

"Many Quantifiers", in Joyce Powers and Kenneth de Jong, eds., Proceedings of the 5th Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Columbus: Ohio State University (1989), 383-402.

"Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts", in C. Wiltshire, B. Music, & R. Graczyk, eds., Papers from CLS 25, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (1989) 342-365.

Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara Partee, eds., Papers in Quantification: Report to NSF, Linguistics Dept., UMass, Amherst (1989).

"Foreword" to L.T.F.Gamut, Logic, Language, and Meaning. Vol I: Introduction to Logic; Vol. II: Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar, English Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. pp. ix-x.

"Domains of quantification and semantic typology", in Frances Ingemann, ed., Proceedings of the 1990 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas, 1991. 3-39.

"Adverbial quantification and event structures", in Laurel Sutton and Christopher Johnson with Ruth Shields, eds., Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on the Grammar of Event Structure, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, 1991, 439-456. [PDF version]

"Topic, Focus and Quantification", in Adam Wyner and Steven Moore, eds., Proceedings of First Annual Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Linguistics Working Papers, Cornell University, 1992. [PDF version]

"Naturalizing Formal Semantics", in Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of Linguists: Texts of Plenary Sessions, Laval University, Quebec, 1992, 62-76.

"Syntactic categories and semantic type", in Michael Rosner and Roderick Johnson, eds.Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, 97-126.

"Semantic structures and semantic properties", in Eric Reuland and Werner Abraham, eds., Knowledge and Language, Vol. II: Lexical and Conceptual Structure, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, 7-29.

"On the 'Scope of Negation' and Polarity Sensitivity" in Eva Hajicova, ed., Functional Description of Language, Prague: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (1993) 179-196. [PDF version]

"Speech on the occasion of the award of an Honorary Doctorate from Charles University", in Eva Hajicova, ed., Functional Description of Language, Prague: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (1993) 11-19.

"Focus, quantification, and semantics-pragmatics issues (preliminary version)" in Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt, eds., Focus and Natural Language Processing, Volume 2: Semantics, IBM Working Paper 7, Heidelberg: IBM Deutschland GmbH (1994) 363-377.

"Quantificational Structures and Compositionality", in E.Bach, E.Jelinek, A.Kratzer, and B.H.Partee, eds., Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995, 541-601.

E.Bach, E.Jelinek, A.Kratzer, and B.H.Partee, "Introduction", in E.Bach, E.Jelinek, A.Kratzer, and B.H.Partee, eds., Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995, 1-11.

"Quantification and the Dynamics of Context-Dependence in Natural Language", in T.Childers and O.Majer, eds., Logica '94: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, Philosophia, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (1995), 141-162.

Hans Kamp and Barbara Partee (1995) "Prototype theory and compositionality", Cognition 57, 129-191.

"Lexical Semantics and Compositionality", in Invitation to Cognitive Science, 2nd edition. Daniel Osherson, general editor; in Part I: Language, Lila Gleitman and Mark Liberman, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge (1995), pp. 311-360. [PDF version]

"Preface" to Jaroslav Peregrin, Doing Worlds and Words, Kluwer Publishers, Dordrecht (1995), pp. xi-xiii.

"The development of formal semantics in linguistic theory", in Shalom Lappin, ed., The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Series, Oxford:Blackwell (1996), 11-38.

"Allegation and Local Accommodation", in Partee and Sgall, eds, 1996, 65-86.

"Eva Hajičova: An Appreciation", in Partee and Sgall, eds, 1996, 407-413.

"Formal semantics and theories of context", The Moscow Journal of Linguistics 2, 1996, 303-318.

Partee, Barbara (1983/1997) "Genitives -- a Case Study" appendix to Theo Janssen (1997), "Compositionality", in Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds., Handbook of Logic and Language, Amsterdam and Cambridge, MA: Elsevier and The MIT Press. 464 - 470.

"Vid i interpretacija imennyx grupp" ("Aspect and the interpretation of Noun Phrases"), Russian translation by N.V.Isakadze of revised version of "Nominal and temporal semantic structure: aspect and quantification"), in Marina Chertkova, ed., Trudy Aspektologicheskogo Seminara Filologicheskogo Fakul'teta MGU im. M.V.Lomonosova, Vol 3, Moscow University Press, 1997 (121-140).

"La semántica composicional y la creatividad lingüística"("Compositional semantics and linguisticcreativity"), in Marianna Pool Westgaard, ed., Estudios de lingüística formal. (1997). Mexico City: Publisher unknown. (Written in Spanish.)

"El desarrollo de la semántica formal en la teoría linguística", Revista Latina de Pensamiento y Lenguaje (Mexico), Número Monagráfico de Semántica, Vol. 3, No.2B (1998). (Spanish translation by Josefina García Fajardo of "The development of formal semantics in linguistic theory").291-328.

"Some continuing puzzles about the valency of "be", in Eva Hajičová, ed., Issues of Valency and Meaning: Studies in Honour of Jarmila Panevová, Prague: Charles University Press, 1998, 27-37.

Eva Hajičová, Barbara Partee, and Petr Sgall (1998) "Focus, Topic and Semantics", in Elena Benedicto, Maribel Romero and Satoshi Tomioka (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Focus. UMass WPL 21. Amherst: GLSA.101-124

"Focus, quantification, and semantics-pragmatics issues" (1999). In Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt, eds., Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 213-231.

"Copula Inversion Puzzles in English and Russian" (1999). In K. Dziwirek et al, eds., Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Seattle Meeting 1998, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 361-395. Also in UMOP 23: Issues in Semantics and its Interface, Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta (eds). (2000) University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA, 183-208.

Weak NP's in HAVE sentences. (1999) In J. Gerbrandy, M. Marx, M. de Rijke, and Y. Venema, eds., JFAK, [a Liber Amicorum for Johan van Benthem on the occasion of his 50th Birthday], CD-Rom, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. Accessible at: http://turing.wins.uva.nl/~j50/cdrom/

"Nominal and temporal semantic structure: aspect and quantification". In E. Hajičová, T Hoskovec, O. Leška, P.Sgall, and Z.Skoumalová, eds., Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, v. 3. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. (1999) 91-108.

"A History of the UMass Linguistics Department to 1999", In Paul de Lacy and Anita Nowak, Eds., UMOP 24: Papers from the 25th Reunion, GLSA, Amherst, (2000) pp xiii-xli.  [Pdf version]

Partee, Barbara H. (2000) "Some remarks on linguistic uses of the notion of "event". In Carol Tenny and James Pustejovsky (eds.), Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics, Logical Semantics and Syntax. (CSLI Lecture Notes 100) Stanford: CSLI Publications. Distributed by Cambridge University Press. 483-496.

Partee, Barbara H. (2000) Topics under Negation: "But the answer never came." In Johannes Dölling and Thomas Pechmann, eds., Prosodie - Struktur - Interpretation. Linguistiche ArbeitsBerichte 74, Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 43-57.

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