Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication Volume 6 FORMAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS. DISCOURSE, CONTEXT AND Article 13 MODELS 2011 Formal Semantics: Origins, Issues, Early Impact Barbara H. Partee Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/biyclc This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Partee, Barbara H. (2011) "Formal Semantics: Origins, Issues, Early Impact," Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1580 This Proceeding of the Symposium for Cognition, Logic and Communication is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences at New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Formal Semantics 2 The Baltic International Yearbook of the twentieth century has concerned how much common ground can Cognition, Logic and Communication be found across logic, philosophy, and linguistics. Formal semantics, a discipline founded on an optimistic answer to October 2011 Volume 6: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: that question, has been shaped over the last forty-plus years by fruit- Discourse, Context, and Models ful interdisciplinary collaboration among linguists, philosophers, and / pages 1-52 DOI: 10.4148 biyclc.v6i0.1580 logicians. In this paper I’ll reflect mainly on the development of formal semantics and to a lesser extent on formal pragmatics in linguistics and BARBARA H. PARTEE philosophy starting in the 1960’s.