The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

Shalom Lappin is Professor of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Notes on Contributors. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Formal Semantics in Linguistics: . 1. The Development of Formal Semantics in Linguistic Theory: Barbara H. Partee. Part II: Generalized Quantifier Theory:. 2. The Semantics of Determiners: Edward L. Keenan. 3. The Role of Situations in Generalized Quantifiers: Robin Cooper. Part III: The Interface Between Syntax and Semantics:. 4. The Syntax/ Semantics Interface in Categorial Grammar: Pauline Jacobson. 5. Anaphora and Identity: Robert Fiengo and Robert May. 6. The Interpretation of Ellipsis: Shalom Lappin. Part IV: Anaphora, Discourse and Modality:. 7. Coreference and Modality: Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof and Frank Veltman. 8. Anaphora in Intensional Contexts:: Craige Roberts. 9. Quantification, Quantificational Domains and Dynamic Logic: Jean Mark Gawron. Part V: Focus, Presupposition and Negation:. 10. Focus: Mats Rooth. 11. Presupposition and Implicature: Laurence R. Horn. 12. Negation and Polarity Items: William A. Ladusaw. Part VI: Tense:. 13. Tense and Modality: Murvet Enc. Part VII: Questions:. 14. The Semantics of Questions: James Higginbotham. 15. Interrogatives: Questions, Facts and Dialogue: Jonathan Ginzburg. Part VIII: Plurals:. 16. Plurality: Fred Landman. Part IX: Computational Semantics:. 17. Computational Semantics - Linguistics and Processing: John Nerbonne. Part X: Lexical Semantics:. 18. Lexical Semantics and Syntactic Structure: Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav. Part XI: Semantics and Related Domains: . 19. Semantics and Logic: Gila Y. Sher. 20. Semantics and Cognition: Ray Jackendoff. 21. Semantics, Pragmatics, and Natural-Language Interpretation: Ruth M. Kempson. 22. Semantics in Linguistics and Philosophy: An Intentionalist Perspective: Jerrold J. Katz. References. Index.