The Syntax and Semantics of English Prepositional Phrases
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For just over twenty years now, I have been an admirer of Fred Sommer’s work in the logic of natural language, especially as summarized extensively in his 1982 book of this title. Before I knew many details about Fred’s work, I wrote in the 1970s Suppes and Macken (1978), and Suppes (1979a, 1979b, 1981). All four of these earlier articles of mine, the first one with Elizabeth Macken, concentrated on the elimination of variables entirely in semantics, and also on a semantics that was organized to reflect directly the structure of natural English, not the structure of first-order logic. My agreement with Fred on these matters could not be more complete.
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