Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics: The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

Editor/Author Lappin, Shalom and Fox, Chris
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley

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ISBN: 978-0-47-067073-6
Category: Language & Literature - Linguistics
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics.

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Table of Contents

  • Dedication
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Quantifiers, Scope, Plurals, and Ellipsis
  • 1 Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language Semantics - Dag Westerst ˚ahl
  • 2 Scope - Chris Barker
  • 3 Plurals - Yoad Winter and Remko Scha
  • 4 Ellipsis - Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Matthew Purver
  • Part II Modification, Presupposition, Tense, and Modality
  • 5 Adjectival Modification and Gradation - Daniel Lassiter
  • 6 Presupposition and Implicature - Christopher Potts
  • 7 The Semantics of Tense and Aspect: A Finite-State Perspective - Tim Fernando
  • 8 Conditionals and Modality - Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann
  • Part III Nondeclaratives
  • 9 Semantics of Questions - Andrzej Wi´sniewski
  • 10 The Semantics of Imperatives - Chris Fox
  • Part IV Type Theory and Computational Semantics
  • 11 Constructive Type Theory - Aarne Ranta
  • 12 Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics - Robin Cooper and Jonathan Ginzburg
  • 13 Curry Typing, Polymorphism, and Fine-Grained Intensionality - Shalom Lappin
  • 14 Semantic Complexity in Natural Language - Ian Pratt-Hartmann
  • 15 Implementing Semantic Theories - Jan van Eijck
  • 16 Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning - Stephen Clark
  • 17 Recognizing Textual Entailment - Mark Sammons
  • Part V Interfaces
  • 18 Natural Logic - Lawrence S. Moss
  • 19 The Syntax-Semantics Interface: Semantic Roles and Syntactic Arguments - Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
  • 20 Reference in Discourse - Andrew Kehler
  • 21 Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics: Uncertainty in Language and Thought - Noah D. Goodman and Daniel Lassiter
  • 22 Semantics and Dialogue - David Schlangen
  • 23 Semantics and Language Acquisition - Eve V. Clark