This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining the afterlife of the proposals, and offering a useful bibliography for further study.

The chapters were commissioned by the series editors to mark the 100th volume in the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. The target articles are amongst the most widely read and cited papers up to the end of the 20th century, and cover most of the important subfields of formal semantics. The authors are all prominent researchers in the field, making this volume a valuable addition to the literature for researchers, students, and teachers of formal semantics.

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Ana Arregui on Dorith Abuschs Sequence of tense and temporal de re.- Susan Rothstein on Emmon Bachs The algebra of events.- Ed Keenan on Jon Barwise and Robin Coopers Generalized quantifiers and natural language.- Donka Farkas on Greg Carlsons A unified analysis of the English bare plural.- Veneeta Dayal on Gennaro Chrierchias Reference to kinds across language.- Paul Pietroski on Donald Davidsons The logical form of action sentences.- Beth Levin on David Dowtys Thematic proto-roles and argument selection.- Thoni Gillies on Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhofs Dynamic predicate logic.- Mandy Simons on Irene Heims On the projection problem for presuppositions.- Simon Charlow on Pauline Jacobsons Towards a variable-free semantics.- Bart Geurts on Hans Kamps A theory of truth and semantic representation.- Elena Guerzoni on Lauri Karttunens The syntax and semantics of questions.- Cleo Condoravdi on Angelika Kratzers The notional category of modality.- Hana Filip on Manfred Krifkas Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics.- Jon Gajewski on William Ladusaws On the notion of affective in the analysis of negative polarity items.- Mats Rooth on David Lewiss Adverbs of quantification.- 17. Adrian Brasoveanu and Lucas Champollion on Godehard Links The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms.- Ede Zimmermann on Richard Montagues Proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English.- Yoad Winter on Barbara Partees Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles.- Fabrizio Cariani on Robert Stalnakers Indicative conditionals.- Cécile Meier on Arnim von Stechows Comparing Semantic Theories of Comparison.- Index.