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The Handbook of Contemporary semantic theory / edited by Shalom Lappin and Chris Fox.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell handbooks in linguisticsPublisher: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, [2015]Edition: Second EditionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118882191 (pdf)
  • 1118882199 (pdf)
  • 9781118881958 (epub)
  • 1118881958 (epub)
  • 9781118882139
  • 111888213X
  • 0470670738 (cloth)
  • 9780470670736 (cloth)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of Contemporary semantic theoryDDC classification:
  • 401/.43 23
LOC classification:
  • P325
Online resources:
Contents:
Quantifiers, Scope, Plurals, and Ellipsis. Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language Semantics / Dag Westerståhl -- Scope* / Chris Barker -- Plurals / Yoad Winter, Remko Scha -- Ellipsis / Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Matthew Purver -- Modification, Presupposition, Tense, and Modality. Adjectival Modification and Gradation / Daniel Lassiter -- Presupposition and Implicature / Christopher Potts -- The Semantics of Tense and Aspect / Tim Fernando -- Conditionals and Modality / Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann -- Nondeclaratives. Semantics of Questions / Andrzej Wiśniewski -- The Semantics of Imperatives / Chris Fox -- Type Theory and Computational Semantics. Constructive Type Theory / Aarne Ranta -- Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics* / Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg -- Curry Typing, Polymorphism, and Fine-Grained Intensionality / Shalom Lappin -- Semantic Complexity in Natural Language / Ian Pratt-Hartmann -- Implementing Semantic Theories / Jan van Eijck -- Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning / Stephen Clark -- Recognizing Textual Entailment / Mark Sammons -- Interfaces. Natural Logic / Lawrence S Moss -- The Syntax-Semantics Interface / Malka Rappaport Hovav, Beth Levin -- Reference in Discourse / Andrew Kehler -- Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics Uncertainty in Language and Thought / Noah D Goodman, Daniel Lassiter -- Semantics and Dialogue / David Schlangen -- Semantics and Language Acquisition / Eve V Clark.
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Quantifiers, Scope, Plurals, and Ellipsis. Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language Semantics / Dag Westerståhl -- Scope* / Chris Barker -- Plurals / Yoad Winter, Remko Scha -- Ellipsis / Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Matthew Purver -- Modification, Presupposition, Tense, and Modality. Adjectival Modification and Gradation / Daniel Lassiter -- Presupposition and Implicature / Christopher Potts -- The Semantics of Tense and Aspect / Tim Fernando -- Conditionals and Modality / Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann -- Nondeclaratives. Semantics of Questions / Andrzej Wiśniewski -- The Semantics of Imperatives / Chris Fox -- Type Theory and Computational Semantics. Constructive Type Theory / Aarne Ranta -- Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics* / Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg -- Curry Typing, Polymorphism, and Fine-Grained Intensionality / Shalom Lappin -- Semantic Complexity in Natural Language / Ian Pratt-Hartmann -- Implementing Semantic Theories / Jan van Eijck -- Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning / Stephen Clark -- Recognizing Textual Entailment / Mark Sammons -- Interfaces. Natural Logic / Lawrence S Moss -- The Syntax-Semantics Interface / Malka Rappaport Hovav, Beth Levin -- Reference in Discourse / Andrew Kehler -- Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics Uncertainty in Language and Thought / Noah D Goodman, Daniel Lassiter -- Semantics and Dialogue / David Schlangen -- Semantics and Language Acquisition / Eve V Clark.