Logic & natural language: on plural reference and its semantic and logical significance

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: PLURAL REFERRING EXPRESSIONS -- 2 Plural Referring Expressions in Natural Language -- 2.1 The Common View on Reference -- 2.2 Plural Reference -- 2.3 The Implausibility of Reductive Analyses of Plural Referring Expressions -- 3 Common Nouns as Plural Referring Expressions -- 3.1 The Functioning of Common Nouns -- 3.2 On an Alleged Ambiguity of the Copula -- 3.3 Attributive and Predicative Adjectives -- 3.4 Natural Kind Terms -- 3.5 Empty Names -- 4 The Sources of the Analysis of Referring Nouns as Predicates -- 4.1 Frege -- 4.2 Russell and Bradley -- 5 Reference -- PART II: QUANTIFICATION -- 6 Quantification: Natural Language versus the Predicate Calculus -- 6.1 The Nature of Quantification, and the Differences between Its Implementations -- 6.2 Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases -- 6.3 Geach and Strawson on Plural Reference and Quantification -- 6.4 Binary and Restricted Quantification, and Comparative Quantifiers -- 6.5 Is 'Existence' a Quantifier? -- 7 Multiple Quantification -- 7.1 On Ambiguity and Formalization -- 7.2 Iterative Reading of Multiply Quantified Sentences -- 7.3 Additional Readings of Quantified Sentences -- 7.4 On the Passive, Converse Relation-Names, and the Copula -- 8 Pronouns, Variables, and Bound Anaphors -- 8.1 Pronouns and other Definitive Noun Phrases as Alleged Variables -- 8.2 Variables versus Bound Anaphors -- 8.3 Rules for the Choice of Anaphors -- 8.4 Conditional Donkey Anaphora -- 8.5 Predicate Connectives, and Bound Anaphora across Sentential Connectives -- 8.6 The Relation between the Truth-Value of a Quantified Sentence and those of Its Instances -- PART III: A DEDUCTIVE SYSTEM FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE -- 9 Derivation Rules and Consistency -- 9.1 Some General Considerations -- 9.2 Basic Characteristics of the System.