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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.