Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Compositionality -- 1. The age of the universe -- 2. Extensionalism -- 3. Problems for extensionalism -- 4. Intensionalism -- 5. Beyond intensionality -- 6. Hyperintensional logic -- Chapter 2: A Brief Guide to Type Theory -- 1. Extensional type-theory -- 1.1 Intransitive verbs -- 1.2 Transitive verbs -- 1.3 Binary truth-functions -- 1.4 Common nouns and adjectives -- 1.5 Quantified noun phrases -- 1.6 The lambda operator -- 1.7 Type shifting and systematic ambiguity -- 1.8 Interpretations of L[sub(x)] -- 2. Hyperintensional semantics -- Chapter 3: Intensional Transitives -- 1. A taxonomy of intensional "transitives" -- 2. Relational versus notional readings -- 3. Existence-independence -- 4. Non-relational, anti-relational, notional -- Chapter 4: Propositionalism -- 1. The Quinean strategy -- 2. Verbs of requirement and desire -- 3. Search verbs -- 4. Depiction verbs -- 5. Verbs of evaluation -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Quantifiers and Characterization -- 1. Quantifiers as arguments -- 2. Event semantics for action verbs -- 3. ITV'S as predicates of events or states -- 4. The notional as non-thematic -- 5. Deriving interpretations -- Chapter 6: Unspecificity and Inference -- 1. Simplification -- 2. Weakening -- 3. The disjunction problem -- 4. Outcome postulates -- 5. Possibility as conceivability -- 6. A theory of conjunctive force -- 7. Characterization by compound QNP'S -- 8. Compound complements with singular terms -- 9. Applying the postulates -- 10. The serendipity problem -- 11. Negative quantifiers -- Chapter 7: Verbs of Creation and Depiction -- 1. Parsons' theory -- 2. Characterizing processes of creation -- 3. Verbs of depiction -- 4. Depiction verbs and the definiteness effect -- 5. The pure inventory account -- Chapter 8: Substitutivity -- 1. Substitution and side-effects.

2. 'so-called' -- 3. 'as such' -- 4. Opacity and unspecificity together -- 5. Simple sentences -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.