Preface
Acknowledgements and references to reprinted articles
Part I Philosophy: Overview   Charles E. Caton
Section 1   Meaning
1     On sentence-sense, word-sense and difference of word sense. Towards a philosophical theory of dictionaries   David Wiggins
2     How does one tell whether a word has one, several or many senses? William P. Alston; 3; A reply to   Mr Alson David Wiggins
4     Meaning   H. G. Price
5     Three levels of meaning   Gilbert H. Harman
Section 2   Reference
1     Reference and referents   Leonard Linsky
2     Identifying reference and truth-values   P. F. Strawson
3     Reference and definite descriptions   Keith Donnellan
4     Singular terms   Zeno Vaendler
5     The problem of proper names   John R. Searle
6     The inscrutability of reference   W. V. Quine
Part II Linguistics: Overview   Howard Maclay
Section 1   The Role of Semantics in a Grammar
1     Deep structure, surface structure, and semantic interpretations   Noam Chomsky
2     Where do noun phrases come from?   James D. McCawley
3     On generative semantics   George Lakoff
Section 2   Meaning, Presupposition and Reference
1     Semantic theory   Jerrold J. Katz
2     Explorations in semantic theory   Uriel Weinreich
3     Presupposition and relative well-formedness   George Lakoff
4     Presupposition and assertion in the semantic analysis of nouns and verbs in English   D. Terence Langendoen
5     Fact   Paul Kiparsky and Carol Kiparsky
Section 3   The Lexicon
1     Types of lexical information   Charles J. Fillmore
2     The data of semantic description   Edward H. Bendix
3     On classifying semantic features   Manfred Bierwisch
4     A method of semantic description   R. M. W. Dixon
5     A note on a Walbiri tradition of antonymy   Kenneth Hale
Part III Psychology: Overview   Danny Steinberg
Section 1   Theoretical Issues
1     Where do sentences come from?   Charles E. Osgood
2     Are there specifically linguistic universals?   David McNeill
3     Language and cognition   Eric H. Lenneberg
4     Could meaning be an rm?   Jerry A. Fodor
Section 2   Empirical Studies
1     Empirical methods in the study of semantics   George A. Miller
2     Some lexical structures and their empirical validity   Thomas G. Bever and Peter S. Rosenbaum
Index