Previous edition: Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.and Fine-Grained Intensionality 408
Shalom Lappin
14 Semantic Complexity in Natural Language 429
Ian Pratt-Hartmann
15 Implementing Semantic Theories 455
Jan van Eijck
16 Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning 493
Stephen Clark
17 Recognizing Textual Entailment 523
Mark Sammons
Part V Interfaces 559
18 Natural Logic 561
Lawrence S. Moss
19 The Syntax-Semantics Interface: Semantic Roles and Syntactic Arguments 593
Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
20 Reference in Discourse 625
Andrew Kehler
21 Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics: Uncertainty in Language and Thought 655
Noah D. Goodman and Daniel Lassiter
22 Semantics and Dialogue 687
David Schlangen
23 Semantics and Language Acquisition 714
Eve V. Clark
Author Index 735
Subject Index 745
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xv
Introduction 1
Part I Quantifiers, Scope, Plurals, and Ellipsis 7
1 Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language Semantics 9
Dag Westerstahl
2 Scope 40
Chris Barker
3 Plurals 77
Yoad Winter and Remko Scha
4 Ellipsis 114
Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Matthew Purver
Part II Modification, Presupposition, Tense, and Modality 141
5 Adjectival Modification and Gradation 143
Daniel Lassiter
6 Presupposition and Implicature 168
Christopher Potts
7 The Semantics of Tense and Aspect: A Finite-State Perspective 203
Tim Fernando
8 Conditionals and Modality 237
Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann
Part III Nondeclaratives 271
9 Semantics of Questions 273
Andrzej Wisniewski
10 The Semantics of Imperatives 314
Chris Fox
Part IV Type Theory and Computational Semantics 343
11 Constructive Type Theory 345
Aarne Ranta
12 Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics 375
Robin Cooper and Jonathan Ginzburg
13 Curry Typing, Polymorphism
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The handbook of contemporary semantic theory by Shalom Lappin. ISBN 9781118881958. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
