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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2022
Linguistics, like all sciences, is deep-rooted in philosophy. Perhaps the most obvious example is that linguistic meaning has been at the center of philosophic inquiry for as long as philosophic discourse has been documented.1 Nevertheless, among the current subfields in linguistics (including phonetics, phonology, and syntax), formal semantics was the latest bloomer.2 As noted in the Preface, it was not until the mid-1980s that formal semantics began to develop as an autonomous field within linguistics. And it was not until the 1990s that it became solidified as such, with the founding of the journal Natural Language Semantics and the conference Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT).3 These venues welcomed philosophers, but their aims and scope were largely linguistic.4
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