The handbook of contemporary semantic theory

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Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference (1996)
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1. Formal semantics in linguistics -- 2. Generalized quantifier theory -- 3. The interface between syntax and semantics -- 4. Anaphora, discourse, and modality -- 5. Focus, presupposition, and negation -- 6. Tense -- 7. Questions -- 8. Plurals -- 9. Computational semantics -- 10. Lexical semantics -- 11. Semantics and related domains.

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P325.H28 1996

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0631187529   063120749X   9781118882191   1118882199   1119046823   9780631187523

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Adjectival modification and gradation.Daniel Lassiter
Constructive type theory.Aarne Ranta
Curry typing, polymorphism, and fine-grained intensionality.Shalom Lappin
Ellipsis.Ronnie Cann Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki Arash Eshghi & Matthew Purver
Generalized quantifiers in natural language semantics.Dag Westerstêahl
Implementing semantic theories.Jan van Eijck
Interrogatives: Questions, facts and dialogue.Jonathan Ginzburg
Lexical semantics and syntactic structure.Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav
Natural logic.Lawrence S. Moss
Plurals.Yoad Winter & Remko Scha
Presupposition and implicature.Christopher Potts
Probabilistic semantics and pragmatics : uncertainty in language and thought.Noah D. Goodman & Daniel Lassiter
Recognizing textual entailment.Mark Sammons
Reference in discourse.Andrew Kehler
Scope.Chris Barker
Semantic complexity in natural language.Ian Pratt-Hartmann
Semantics and dialogue.David Schlangen
Semantics and language acquisition.Eve V. Clark
Semantics of questions.Andrzej Wiâsniewski
The semantics of imperatives.Chris Fox
The semantics of tense and aspect : a finite-state perspective.Tim Fernando
The syntax-semantics interface : semantic roles and syntactic arguments.Malka Rappaport Hovav & Beth Levin
Type theory with records for natural language semantics.Robin Cooper & Jonathan Ginzburg
Vector space models of lexical meaning.Stephen Clark
The development of formal semantics in linguistic theory.  (pages 11--38)Barbara H. Partee
The Semantics of Determiners.  (pages 41--64)Edward L. Keenan
The Role of Situations in Generalized Quantifiers.  (pages 65--86)Robin Cooper
The syntax/semantics interface in Categorial Grammar.  (pages 89--116)Pauline Jacobson
Anaphora and Identity.  (pages 117--144)Robert Fiengo & Robert May
The Interpretatin of Ellipsis.  (pages 145--176)Shalom Lappin
Coreference and modality.  (pages 179-216)Martin Stokhof, Jeroen Groenendijk & Frank Veltman
Anaphora in Intensional Contexts.  (pages 215--246)Craige Roberts
Conditionals and Modality.  (pages 237-270)Magdalena Kaufmann & Stefan Kaufmann
Quantification, Quantificational Domains and Dynamic Logic.  (pages 247--268)Jean Mark Gawron
Focus: 271-297.  (pages 271-297)M. Rooth
Presupposition and implicature.  (pages 299--319)Laurence Horn
Negation and polarity items.  (pages 321--341)William A. Ladusaw
Tense and Modality.  (pages 345--358)Murvet Enc
Plurality.  (pages 425--458)Fred Landman
Computational semantics—linguistics and processing.  (pages 459--82)John Nerbonne
Semantics and Logic.  (pages 509-535)Gila Sher
Semantics, Pragmatics, and Natural-Language Interpretation.  (pages 561--598)Ruth M. Kempson
Semantics in linguistics and philosophy: an intensionalist perspective.  (pages 599--616)Jerrold J. Katz

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