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Philosophy and Natural-Language Processing.- Prologue: Modes of Meaning.- Utterer’s Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning.- I: Formal Syntax of Natural Language.- Footlose and Context-Free.- Evidence Against the Context-Freeness of Natural Language.- II: Semantic Aspects of Natural Language.- Truth and Meaning.- Semantics for Propositional Attitudes.- III: Connecting Syntax with Semantics.- The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English.- Phrase Structure Grammar.- IV: Natural Language and Logical Form.- Quantifiers in Natural Languages: Some Logical Problems, I.- Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language.- V: Possible-Worlds and Situation Semantics.- From Worlds to Situations.- Possible Worlds and Situations.- Epilogue: From Semantics to Pragmatics.- Semantics versus Pragmatics.- Selected Bibliography.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.