"Word Meaning and Montague Grammar" is a scholarly book that focuses on research in the field of word semantics. It combines methods and findings from linguistic semantics, particularly generative semantics, with the formalized syntactic and semantic framework developed by Richard Montague and his collaborators. The book aims to explore the fundamental semantic concepts of truth and denotation within the context of a model. It presents arguments from both linguistic and philosophical perspectives on why this synthesis is not only possible but also useful. The analyses of linguists who break down word meanings into primitive parts are often incomplete, as they focus solely on distinctions of meaning without clarifying what meanings actually are. By applying model-theoretic semantics, these analyses can be completed and made more precise and testable.