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Partee, Barbara Hall was born on June 23, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of David B. and Helen M. Hall.
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1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as well.
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1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova and Sgall (HS in the sequel), topic-focus articulation has long been a central object of study, and it has long been a tenet of Prague school linguistics that topic-focus structure has systematic relevance to meaning. Within the formal semantics tradition represented by Partee (BHP in the sequel), focus has much more recently become an area of concerted investigation, but a number of the semantic phenomena to which focus is relevant have been extensively investi gated and given explicit compositional semantic-analyses. The emergence of 'tripartite structures' (see Chapter 2) in formal semantics and the partial simi larities that can be readily observed between some aspects of tripartite structures and some aspects of Praguian topic-focus articulation have led us to expect that a closer investigation of the similarities and differences in these different theoretical constructs would be a rewarding undertaking with mutual benefits for the further development of our respective theories and potential benefit for the study of semantic effects of focus in other theories as well.
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Barbara H. Partee has played a central role in developing the now-flourishing field of formal semantics, bringing the formal semantic approach developed by logicians together with a linguistically sophisticated account of the syntax of natural languages. She has continued to be a major contributor to semantics, offering general ideas that have helped to clarify the character of the enterprise as well as imaginative and persuasive detailed analyses. Compositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Partee's papers that have been influential in the field but are not all readily available, and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years. This collection is invaluable both for understanding the history and evolution of the field and for its contribution to ongoing research.
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Partee, Barbara Hall was born on June 23, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of David B. and Helen M. Hall.
Bachelor with high honors in Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965. Doctor of Science (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1989.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary) (honorary), Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, 2001.
She is one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics in the United States. She retired from UMass in September 2004. Partee began her professorial career at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965 as an associate professor of linguistics.
She taught there until 1972, when she transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, soon becoming a full professor
During her time at UMass Amherst, she has taught numerous students who would become notable linguists including Gennaro Chierchia and Irene Heim. She helped popularize Montague"s approach to the semantics of natural languages among linguists in the United States, especially at a time when there was a lot of uncertainty about the relation between syntax and semantics.
In her later years she has become increasingly interested in a new kind of intellectual synthesis, forging connections to the tradition of lexical semantic research as it has long been practiced in Russia.
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Through her interactions with the philosopher and logician Richard Montague at University of California, Los Angeles in the 1970s she played an important role in bringing together the research traditions of generative linguistics, formal logic, and analytic philosophy, pursuing an agenda pioneered by David Lewis in his 1970 article General Semantics.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences (chair anthropology section 1993-1996), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Sigma Xi. Member Linguistic Society of America (president 1986), American Philosophical Association, Association Computational Linguistics, Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign).
Married Morriss Henry Partee, 1966 (divorced 1971). Children: Morriss M., David M., Joel T. Married Emmon Werner Bach, 1973 (divorced 1996).
Married Vladimir B. Borschev, 1997.