Add to ORKGABSTRACT: Formal semantics and pragmatics as they have de-veloped since the late 1960’s have been shaped by fruitful inter-disciplinary collaboration among linguists, philosophers, and lo-gicians, among others, and in turn have had noticeable effects on developments in syntax, philosophy of language, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. In this paper I describe the environment in which formal se-mantics was born and took root, highlighting the differences in ways of thinking about natural language semantics in linguistics and in philosophy and logic. With Montague as a central but not solo player in the story, I reflect on crucial developments in the 1960’s and 70’s in linguistics and philosophy, and the growth of formal semant...