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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="J79-1074"> <Title>SEllANTIC INTERPFETATION I N ROMTASUE GFbAMNAR</Title> <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="intro"> <SectionTitle> ABSTRACT </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> The semantics of Moritague's The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English (PTQ) uses an intensional model to evaluate formulas. In this primarily tutorial paper we show how a model can be explicitly constructed and used. Examples of the evaluation of formulas are worked through carefully.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> Partiqular attention is paid to the role of the meaning.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="2"> postulates of PTQ in restricting the choice of models.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="3"> An abbreviatory notation, giving names to complex elements, is used to sivplify khe process of constructing a model. At each level, complex elements are formed from simpler elements alfeady named.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="4"> Tht; size of a finite model PS01 PTQ based on two points of reference and two entities is calculated and its implications discussed.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="5"> This research ik supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants BNS 76-23940 ahd MCS 76-0497</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>