Amazon.com description: Product Description: "A masterful summary of current linguistic and semantic theory. . . . Neale has combined recent developments in semantics. linguistics, and philosophical logic into a systematic and stylishly presented position. This is the book to read to find the latest on the theory of reference." -- Bernard Linsky, "Dialogue" Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense, extension, and application of Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions. He systematically critiques traditional arguments against this paradigm of philosophy and lucidly demontrates its importance to contemporary theories of syntax and semantics and to philosophical inquiry.