This volume provides a comprehensive view of the central issues in contemporary semantic theory.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• I Formal Semantics in Linguistics
• 1 The Development of Formal Semantics in Linguistic Theory
• II Generalized Quantifier Theory
• 2 The Semantics of Determiners
• 3 The Role of Situations in Generalized Quantifiers
• III The Interface between Syntax and Semantics
• 4 The Syntax/Semantics Interface in Categorial Grammar
• 5 Anaphora and Identity
• 6 The Interpretation of Ellipsis
• IV Anaphora, Discourse and Modality
• 7 Coreference and Modality
• 8 Anaphora in Intensional Contexts
• 9 Quantification, Quantificational Domains and Dynamic Logic
• V Focus, Presupposition and Negation
• 10 Focus
• 11 Presupposition and Implicature
• 12 Negation and Polarity Items
• VI Tense
• 13 Tense and Modality
• VII Questions
• 14 The Semantics of Questions
• 15 Interrogatives: Questions, Facts and Dialogue
• VIII Plurals
• 16 Plurality
• IX Computational Semantics
• 17 Computational Semantics – Linguistics and Processing
• X Lexical Semantics
• 18 Lexical Semantics and Syntactic Structure
• XI Semantics and Related Domains
• 19 Semantics and Logic
• 20 Semantics and Cognition
• 21 Semantics, Pragmatics, and Natural-Language Interpretation
• 22 Semantics in Linguistics and Philosophy: An Intensionalist Perspective
• References