Preface / 01 Introduction / 01 Chapter 1 Considerations about the Natural Language / 01 1.1 Views on the Nature of Language / 01 1.2 The Communicative Function of Language / o4 1.3 Language and Thought / o7 Chapter 2 Semantic Theory / 13 2.1 Points of Semantic Knowledge / 13 2.2 The form of Semantic Theory / 14 2.3 Theories of Semantic Knowledge / 27 2.4 The Construction of Semantic Knowledge / 29 2.5 Representation of Semantic Knowledge / 32 2.6 The Semantic Value otthe Predicate / 36 Chapter 3 The Semantics of Different Uttrances / 38 3.1 The Semantic Values of Attitudes / 38 3.2 The Semantic Values of Referenets / s0 Chapter 4 The Link between Language and Metaphysics / 60 4.1 Ontological Commitments of Semantics / 61 4.2 EmpiricaIStudies / 62 4.3 Indivisible Connection between Ontological Commitment and Semantics / 71 Chapter 5 The Semantics of Tense / 7s 5.1 The Grammatical Evidence / 75 5.2 Different Approaches toTense / 8o 5.3 Ubiquitous Metalinguistic Quantification overTimes / 84 Chapter 6 Problems of Clarifying SemanticalValues / 86 6.1 TheToken-reflexive Strategy / 86 6.2 Tokenings of Uttrances with Tense / 91 6.3 Difficulties in Evaluating Uttrances / 94 6.4 The Relation between Tense and Semantics / 96 Chapter 7 A BetterWay of Identifying Semantics / 99 7.1 The Appraisal of the Semantic Theory / 99 7.2 Semantical Analyses with the Theory / 102 7.3 Counterviews on the Theory / 105 7.4 Other Linguists' Opinions on the Theory ! 108 Chapter 8 AnotherWay of Semantic Research / 11s 8.1 Gambit of the Theory / 115 8.2 Development of the Theory / 123 8.3 More Issues / 139 Chapter 9 Further Examinations / 145 9.1 From the Psycholinguistic Perspective / 147 9.2 From the Phenomenological Perspective / 150 9.3 Summing-up / 154 Chapter 10 Possible Results / 156 10.1 In the Field of Philosophy / 156 10.2 In the Field of Linguistics / 168 10.3 Summing-up / 177 Bibliography / 3.79 Appendix P1 Is I-Language the Language of Thought? / 197 Appendix P2 Language/World Isomorphism? / 2o2 Appendix T1 A Basic Quantificational Fragment / 212 Appendix T2 A Quantificational Fragment with Events / 222 Appendix T3 A Fragment with ILFs for Propositional Attitudes / 228 Appendix T4 Semantics for LB / 234 Appendix T5 A Basic A-Theory Fragment 239
