Old Lecture Notes
Heim, Irene, and Angelika Kratzer. Semantics in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Readings
Portner, Paul, and Barbara Partee, eds. Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
(Formal Semantics is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.)
Frank Veltman's list of 40 classics in semantics and pragmatics.
Belief, Kai!
Eric Schwitzgebel has a draft entry on "Belief" for the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Sauerland, Uli. "Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences."
Two Readings
Kratzer, Angelika. "The Notional Category of Modality." In Words, Worlds, and Contexts New Approaches in Word Semantics. Edited by H. J. Eikmeyer and H. Rieser. Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1981, pp. 38–74. Reprinted in Portner & Partee (2002), 289–323.
Ferenc Kiefer. "On Defining Modality." Folia Linguistica 21 (1987): 67-94.
Negation, Scope, etc.
Horn, Laurence R. "Remarks on neg-raising." In Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1978, pp. 129-220.
Tovena, Lucia M. "Neg-Raising: negation as finite failure?" In Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items. Edited by J. Hoeksema, H. Rulmann, V. Sanchez Valencia and T. van der Wouden. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000, pp. 331-356.
von Fintel, Kai, and Sabine Iatridou. "Epistemic Containment." Linguistic Inquiry 34, 2 (2003): 173-198.
Butler, Jonny. "What Mustn't and Can't Mustn't and Can't Mean (in a feature based system of scope)." Master's thesis, University of York, 2001.
Butler, Jonny. "A Minimalist Treatment of Modality." Lingua 113 (2003): 967-996.
Stowell, Tim. "Tense and Modals." 2002. In J. Guéron and J. Lecarme, eds. (To appear)
The Syntax of Conditionals
Bhatt, Rajesh, and Roumyana Pancheva. "Conditionals." 2001. Ms.
References on Flexibility of Epistemic Possibility
Derose, Keith. "Epistemic Possibilities." The Philosophical Review 100, 4 (1991): 581–605.
Derose, Keith. "Simple 'might's, Indicative Possibilities and the Open Future." Philosophical Quarterly 48, 190 (1998): 67-82.
Teller, Paul. "Epistemic Possibility." Philosophia 2 (1972): 302-320.
Hacking, Ian. "Possibility." The Philosophical Review 76, 2 (1967): 143-168.
Hacking, Ian. "All Kinds of Possibility." The Philosophical Review 84 (1975): 321-337.
Gibbs, Benjamin. "Real Possibility." American Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1970): 340-348.
Web References on Conditionals
Edgington, Dorothy, "Conditionals", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. Fall 2001 Edition.
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2001/entries/conditionals
Peter Suber's page on the 'paradoxes of material implication'
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/mat-imp.htm
The Third Reading
Percus, Orin. "Constraints on Some Other Variables in Syntax." Natural Language Semantics 8, 3 (2000): 173-229.
Some Web Resources on Tense etc.
Robert Binnick's Bibliography of Tense and Aspect
Foundations of Temporal Logic — The WWW-site for Prior-Studies
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Temporal Logic, Arthur Prior
Two Tense Readings
Partee, Barbara. "Some structural analogies between tenses and pronouns in English." The Journal of Philosophy 70, 18 (1973): 601-609.
Musan, Renate. "Tense, Predicates, and Lifetime Effects." Natural Language Semantics 5 (1997): 271-301.
Readings
von Stechow, Arnim. "Temporal Prepositional Phrases with Quantifiers: Some Additions to Pratt and Francez (2001)." Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (2002): 755-800.
Pratt, Ian and Nissim Francez. "Temporal Prepositions and Temporal Generalized Quantifiers." Linguistics and Philosophy 24 (2001): 187-222.
Hamblin
Hamblin, C. L. "Questions in Montague English." Foundations of Language 10 (1973): 41-53.
Here are two pages about Hamblin (who died in 1985 and was both a philosopher and apparently a pioneer in computer science):
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/hamblin.html
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~peter/hamblinbio.html
The Classics of Intensional Semantics
Montague, Richard. "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English." In Approaches to Natural Language. Edited by Jaako Hintikka, Julius Moravcsik and Patrick Suppes. Reidel Dordrecht, 1973, pp. 221–242. Reprinted in Portner & Partee, 2002, pp. 17–34.
Lewis, David. "General Semantics." Synthese 22 (1970): 18–67. Reprinted with a postscript in Lewis, Philosophical Papers. Vol.1 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 189–232.
Cresswell, Max. Logics and Languages. London: Methuen, 1973.
Modal Logic
Hughes, George, and Max Cresswell. A New Introduction to Modal Logic. London: Routledge, 1996.
Surveys of Modality
Palmer, Frank Robert. Mood and Modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
White, Alan. Modal Thinking. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.
Modals and the Square of Opposition
van der Auwera, Johan. "Modality: The Three-Layered Scalar Square.” Journal of Semantics 13, 3 (1996): 181-195.
A Couple of Papers on Quantification in General
Partee, Barbara. "Quantificational Structures and Compositionality." In Quantification in Natural Languages. Edited by Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara Partee. Kluwer, 1995, pp. 541-601.
Stanley, Jason, and Zoltán Szabo. "On Quantifier Domain Restriction." Mind and Language 15, 2/3 (2000): 219–261.
Kratzer, Angelika. "What Must and Can Must and Can Mean." Linguistics and Philosophy 1 (1977): 337–355.
Kratzer, Angelika. Semantik der Rede: Kontexttheorie Modalwörter Konditionalsätze. Königstein: Scriptor, 1978.
Kratzer, Angelika. "The Notional Category of Modality." In Words, Worlds, and Contexts. New Approaches in Word Semantics. Edited by H. J. Eikmeyer and H. Rieser. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1981, pp. 38–74. Reprinted in Portner & Partee (2002), pp. 289–323.
Kratzer, Angelika. "Conditionals." Chicago Linguistics Society 22, 2 (1986): 1–15.
Kratzer, Angelika. "Modality." In Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. Edited by Arnim Von Stechow and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 639–650.
Some Work on Epistemic Modality
Karttunen, Lauri. "Possible and Must." In Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 1. Edited by John Kimball. New York: Seminar Press, 1972, pp. 1–20.
Hacking, Ian. "Possibility." The Philosophical Review 76, 2 (1967): 143–168.
Gibbs, Benjamin. "Real Possibility." American Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1970): 340–348.
Hacking, Ian. "All Kinds of Possibility." The Philosophical Review 84 (1975): 321–337.
Teller, Paul. "Epistemic Possibility." Philosophia 2 (1972): 302–320.
DeRose, Keith. "Epistemic Possibilities." The Philosophical Review 100, 4 (1991): 581–605.
DeRose, Keith. "Simple 'might's', Indicative Possibilities and the Open Future." Philosophical Quarterly 48, 190 (1998): 67–82.
Two Recent Dissertations on Evidentiality
Garrett, Edward John. "Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan." Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 2002.
Faller, Martina. "Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua." Ph.D. thesis, Stanford, 2002.
http://www.mpi.nl/world/persons/profession/marfal.html
See also:
Izvorski, Roumyana. "The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal." In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) VII. Edited by Aaron Lawson. Ithaca, New York: CLS Publications, 1997.
Rooryck, Johan. "Evidentiality, Part I." Glot International 5, 4 (2001a): 125–133.
Rooryck, Johan. "Evidentiality, Part II." Glot International 5, 5 (2001b): 161–168.
More Work on Modals
Brennan, Ginny. "Root and Epistemic Modal Auxiliary Verbs." Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.
Iatridou, Sabine. "The Past, the Possible, and the Evident." Linguistic Inquiry 21 (1990): 123–129.
von Fintel, Kai, and Sabine Iatridou. "Epistemic Containment." Linguistic Inquiry 34 (2003): 173-198.
Butler, Jonny. "What Mustn't and Can't Mustn't and Can't Mean" (in a feature based system of scope). Master's thesis, University of York, 2001.
Butler, Jonny. "A Minimalist Treatment of Modality." Lingua 113 (2003): 967-996.
Some Work on Tense & Modals
Stowell, Tim. "Tense and Modals." 2002. To appear in J. Guéron and J. Lecarme (eds.).
Condoravdi, Cleo. "Temporal Interpretation of Modals." In The Construction of Meaning. Edited by David I. Beaver, Luis D. Casillas Martinez, Brady Z. Clark, and Stefan Kaufmann. Palo Alto: CSLI Publications, 2002, pp. 59–88.
http://semanticsarchive.net/
Werner, Tom. "Deducing the Future." Ms., Rutgers University, 2002.
Work on Possibility and Context Change
Kamp, Hans. "Free Choice Permission." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1973): 57-74.
Kamp, Hans. "Semantics versus Pragmatics." In Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages. Edited by Franz Guenthner and S. J. Schmidt. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979, pp. 255–287.
Zimmermann, Thomas Ede. "Free Choice Disjunction and Epistemic Possibility." Natural Language Semantics 8, 4 (2000): 255–290.
Classics on Conditionals
Stalnaker, Robert. "A Theory of Conditionals." In Studies in Logical Theory. Edited by Nicholas Rescher. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968, pp. 98–112.
Stalnaker, Robert, and Richmond Thomason. "A Semantic Analysis of Conditional Logic." Theoria 36 (1970): 23–42.
Lewis, David. Counterfactuals. Oxford: Blackwell, 1973a.
Lewis, David. "Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility." Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973b): 418–446.
Nute, Donald. "Conditional Logic." In Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Vol. II. Edited by Dov Gabbay and Franz Guenthner. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984, pp. 387–439.
Kinds of Conditionals
Gibbard, Alan. "Two Recent Theories of Conditionals." In Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time. Edited by William Harper, Robert Stalnaker, and Glenn Pearce. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981, pp. 211–247.
Edgington, Dorothy. "On Conditionals." Mind 104 (1995): 235–329.
Recent work on Compositional Semantics of Conditionals
von Fintel, Kai. "Bare Plurals, Bare Conditionals, and Only." Journal of Semantics 14, 1 (1997): 1–56.
von Fintel, Kai. "Counterfactuals in a Dynamic Context." In Ken Hale: A Life in Language. Edited by Michael Kenstowicz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 123–152.
Schlenker, Philippe. "Conditionals as Definite Descriptions (A Referential Analysis)." 2002.
http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/disk0/00/00/01/51/index_fr.html
Accepted for publication by the Journal of Language and Computation.
Schwarz, Bernhard. "Reduced Conditionals in German: Event Quantification and Definiteness." Natural Language Semantics 6, 3 (1998): 271–301.
Beck, Sigrid. "On the Semantics of Comparative Conditionals." Linguistics and Philosophy 20, 3 (1997): 229–271.
The Syntax of Conditionals
Bhatt, Rajesh, and Roumyana Pancheva. "Conditionals." 2001.
The Lewis/Kratzer/Heim Restrictor Theory
Lewis, David. "Adverbs of Quantification." In Formal Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Edward Keenan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 3–15.
Heim, Irene. "The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases." Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1982.
Counterfactual Morphology
von Fintel, Kai. "The Presupposition of Subjunctive Conditionals." In The Interpretive Tract. Edited by Uli Sauerland and Orin Percus. MITWPL Cambridge, 1998, pp. 29–44.
Iatridou, Sabine. "The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality." Linguistic Inquiry 31, 2 (2000): 231–270.
Ippolito, Michela: "On the Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals." 2003.
Recent Work on Deontic Conditionals
Frank, Annette. "Context Dependence in Modal Constructions." Ph.D. thesis, Universität Stuttgart, 1997.
Zvolenszky, Zsófia. "Is a Possible-Worlds Semantics of Modality Possible? A Problem for Kratzer's Semantics." 2002.
Mood Marking
Portner, Paul. "The Semantics of Mood." Glot International 4, 1 (1999): 3–9.
Portner, Paul. "The Semantics of Mood, Complementation, and Conversational Force." Natural Language Semantics 5, 2 (1997): 167–212.
Baker, Mark, and Lisa Travis. "Mood as Verbal Definiteness in a 'Tenseless' Language." Natural Language Semantics 5, 3 (1997): 213–269.
NPIs in Conditionals
Heim, Irene. "A Note on Polarity Sensitivity and Downward Entailingness." NELS 14 (1984): 98–107.
von Fintel, Kai. "NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context Dependency." Journal of Semantics 16 (1999): 97–148.
Free Choice Items and other Modally Loaded Phrases
Dayal, Veneeta. "'Any' as Inherently Modal." Linguistics and Philosophy 21, 5 (1998): 433–476.
Giannakidou, Anastasia. “The Meaning of Free Choice.” Linguistics and Philosophy 24, 6 (2001): 659–735.
von Fintel, Kai. "Whatever." Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 10 (2000).
Kratzer, Angelika, and Junko Shimoyama. "Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese." In The Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics . Edited by Y. Otsu. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2002, pp. 1–25.
http://semanticsarchive.net/
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis, and Paula Menendez-Benito. "Some Epistemic Indefinites." North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 33 (2003).