Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Meaningful situations; 2. Evidence for a theory of linguistic meaning; Part II. A Theory of Situations: 3. Abstract situations; 4. Event-types; 5. Constraints; Part III. Situation Semantics: 6. Sentence meanings; 7. The meaning of singular noun phrases; Part IV. The Attitudes: 8. Seeing; 9. Attitudes as relations to situations; 10. Representing mental states and events; 11. Further directions; Appendix to chapter 6: Determiner-free aliass; Appendix to chapter 7: Singular aliass.

About the Author

Jon Barwise (1942-2000) was professor of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science at Indiana University and one of the founding members of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).