Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles : A Pragmatist's Analysis of Montague's Theory of Sentence Meaning

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Suppositiones terminorum in the twentieth century: Suppositio functionalis and functional being -- I. Intentional intensions -- II. Functional sentence perspective and syntactically ambiguous sentences in ordinary English -- III. A first theory of the Interpreter's representational apparatus: Enriched English (EE) and Begriffsschrift No. 2 -- IV. Individual-relational meaning postulates in Enriched English; or, link with Begriffsschrift No. 1 -- V. Improved theory of the Interpreter's representational language - Intensional English (IE) and Begriffsschrift No. 3 -- VI. A systematic description of the Interpreter's reconstructions - Ajdukiewicz grammars and their uses -- VII. Substantive common nouns and the reification of individual-functions -- VIII. Existence, negation and roles: Prolegomena to a pragmatic theory of denotation and existential import in "negative sentences" -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter