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Dynamic Semantics

van Benthem, Johan and Alice ter Meulen (eds). 1997. Handbook of Logic and Language. Amsterdam: Elsevier,

Davis, Stephen (ed). 1991. Pragmatics: A Reader. Oxford University Press.

Frank, Anette. 1996. Context Dependence in Modal Constructions. PhD Dissertation, Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart.

Groenendijk, Jeoren and Martin Stokhof. 1991. Dynamic predicate logic. Linguistics and Philosophy 14:39-100.

Groenendijk, Jeroen, Martin Stokhof, and Frank Veltman. 1996. Coreference and modality. In Lappin, S. (ed). Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, pages 179-214. Blackwell.

Heim, Irene. 1982. The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases. PhD Dissertation, UMass Amherst.

Heim, Irene. 1983a. File change semantics and the Famliarity Theory of definiteness. In Bäerle, R., C. Schwarze, and A. von Stechow (eds), Meaning, Use and the Interpertation of Language, pages 164-190. Walter de Gruyter. Reprinted in Portner and Partee (2002), pages 223-248.

Heim, Irene. 1983b. On the projection problem for presuppositions. In Barlow, M., Flickinger, D., and M. Wescoat (eds.), Proceedings of the Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University, 114-125. Reprinted in Davis (1991), pages 397-405; Portner and Partee (2002), pages 249-260.

Isaacs, James and Kyle Rawlins. To appear. Conditional questions. Journal of Semantics.

Kamp, Hans. 1981. A theory of truth and semantic representation. In Groenendijk, J., T. Janssen, and M. Stokhof (eds.), Formal Methods in the Study of Language, University of Amsterdam. Reprinted in Portner and Partee (2002), pages 189-222.

Kamp, Hans and Uwe Reyle. 1993. From Discourse to Logic. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Karttunen, Lauri. 1969. Discourse referents. In Procedings of the 1969 Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING~69), pages 1-38. Association for Computational Linguistics. Reprinted in Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (ed.), 2003 Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Vol. III, pages 20-39, Routledge; McCawlay, James (ed.), 1976, Syntax and Semantics 7: Notes from the Linguistic Underground, pages 363-85, New York: Academic Press.

Kaufmann, Stefan. 2000. Dynamic context management. In Faller, M., S. Kaufmann, and M. Pauly (eds). Formalizing the Dynamics of Information, pages 171-188. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Muskens, Reinhard, Johan van Benthem, and Albert Visser. 1997. Dynamics. In van Benthem and ter Meulen (1997), pages 587-648.

Portner, Paul and Barbara Partee (eds). 2002. Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Blackwell.

Roberts, Craige. 1989. Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy 12:683-721. Reprinted in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed), 2003, Semantics: Critical concepts in linguistics, Routledge.

Robert Stalnaker. 1978. Assertion. In Cole, P. (ed.) Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics, pages 315-332. New York: Academic Press.

Stokhof, Martin and Jeoren Groenendijk. 1999. Dynamic semantics. In Wilson, R.A. and F.C. Keil, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, pages 246-248. MIT Press.

Veltman, Frank. 1996. Defaults in update semantics. Journal of Philosophical Logic 25:221-261

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