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Part 1 The nature of semantic theory: the pretheoretical domain ofsemantics; semantic theory as a theory of linguistic knowledge; theplace and responsibilities of semantic theory. Part 2 Knowledge ofmeaning and theories of truth: T theories; T theories as theories ofmeaning; the theoretical domain of semantics; the reality of semanticknowledge. Part 3 Meaning and structure: notions of structure;constraints on semantic rules; some syntactic theory; concludingmethodological remarks. Part 4 Verbs and predication: the structure andinterpretation of elementary clauses; the semantics of predicates andpredication; alternatives to the PC+ analysis of predicates; evaluatingthe alternatives. Part 5 Proper nouns and reference: proper nouns inPC+; descriptive names; problems for PC+DN; knowing the axioms of asemantic theory. Part 6 Pronouns and demonstratives: introducingcontexts; contexts, sequences and indices; conditionalized T sentences;complex demonstratives; indexical pronouns and the relation sigma; thesemantic properties of pronouns and demonstratives. Part 7Quantification: the syntactic form of quantification; the semantics ofquantification; the theory of PredC; quantification and the LFhypothesis; variable-binding operators. Part 8 Quantifiers andquantifier properties: noncompositionality in PredC; the relationalanalysis of determiners; the theory GQ; quantifier properties; what isa quantifier?. Part 9 Definite descriptions: definite desriptions asquantifiers; definite descriptions as referring terms; a pragmaticalternative; proper NPs as referential definites. Part 10 Anaphora:bound-variable anaphora; argument anaphora; unbound anaphora. Part 11Clausal complements and attitude reports: clausal complements and truthvalues; words, worlds and propositions; interpreted logical forms; thetheory ILF; ILFs and inference. Part 12 Events, states and times:analyses of adverbs; Davidson's event analysis; thematic roles; states;times. Part 13 Meaning and knowledge: semantics and linguisticindividualism; semantics and psychoindividualism; tacit knowledge.