Stanley Peters

Biographic Data

ID3842454
NAMEStanley Peters
GIVEN NAMESStanley
FAMILY NAMEPeters
SIGNATUREPETERS S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0003-4920-3506
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The semantics of exceptives

    Open AccessStanley Peters, Dag WesterståhlARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2023

    This paper gives a uniform account of the meaning of generalizations with explicit exceptions that employ the prepositions “but”, “except”, and “except for”. Our theory is that exceptives depend on generalizations, which can but need not be universal, whose generality they limit, and some of whose exceptions they comment on. Every generalization intrinsically partitions its domain of applicability into regular cases, which are as it says to expec…

  • Addendum to ‘The semantics of possessives’: Barker on quantified possessives

    Stanley Peters, Dag WesterståhlARTICLELanguage2013

    As far as we know, the phenomenon of narrowing for possessives was dis-cussed for the first time in Barker (1995), with examples such as 1. (1) a. Most planets ’ rings are made of ice. b. Not every school’s linguistics program is as good as that one. Barker also proposed a general scheme for semantic interpretation of quantified (non-expanded) prenominal possessor DPs. His idea was to use a generalized quantifier that simultaneously binds two var…

  • The semantics of possessives

    Open AccessStanley Peters, Dag WesterståhlARTICLELanguage2013Cited by: 6

    We investigate what possessives mean by examining a wide range of English examples, pre-and postnominal, quantified and nonquantified, to arrive at general, systematic truth conditions for them. In the process, we delineate a rich class of paradigmatic possessives having crosslinguistic interest, exploiting characteristic semantic properties. One is that all involve (implicit or explicit) quantification over possessed entities. Another is that th…

  • Introduction to Montague Semantics

    David R Dowty, R Wall et al.BOOKIntroduction to Montague Semantics2012

  • On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals

    Makoto Kanazawa, Stefan Kaufmann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2005

    Kratzer (1981) discussed a naïve premise semantics of counterfactual conditionals, pointed to an empirical inadequacy of this interpretation, and presented a modification—partition semantics—which Lewis (1981) proved equivalent to Pollock's (1976) version of his ordering semantics. Subsequently, Kratzer (1989) proposed lumping semantics, a different modification of premise semantics, and argued it remedies empirical failings of ordering semantics…

  • Reciprocal Expressions and the Concept of Reciprocity

    Open AccessMary Dalrymple, Makoto Kanazawa et al.ARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy1998

  • Montague’s Intensional Logic

    David R Dowty, Robert E Wall et al.CHAPTERIntroduction to Montague Semantics1981

  • A truth-conditional formulation of Karttunen's account of presupposition

    Open AccessStanley PetersARTICLESynthese1979Cited by: 4

  • Requiem for Presupposition

    Open AccessLauri Karttunen, Stanley PetersARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1977

    Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1977), pp. 360-371

  • Goals of Linguistic Theory

    Theodore M Lightner, Theodore Μ Lightner et al.ARTICLELanguage1976

  • Why there are many ‘universal’ bases 1

    Open AccessStanley PetersARTICLEPaper in Linguistics1970

  • More Linguistics of the Sixties

    Ronald R Butters, William Orr Dingwall et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1970