TY - BOOK AU - Lappin,Shalom AU - Fox,Chris TI - The Handbook of Contemporary semantic theory T2 - Blackwell handbooks in linguistics SN - 9780470670736 PY - 2015///] CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Semantics KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Semantics (Philosophy) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Generalized quantifiers in natural language semantics / Dag Westerst{u3961}hl -- Scope / Chris Barker -- Plurals / Yoad Winter and Remko Scha -- Ellipsis / Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Matthew Purver -- Adjectival modification and gradation / Daniel Lassiter -- Presupposition and implicature / Christopher Potts -- The semantics of tense and aspect : a finite-state perspective / Tim Fernando -- Conditionals and modality / Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann -- Semantics of questions / Andrzej Wi{u3873}niewski -- The semantics of imperatives / Chris Fox -- Constructive type theory / Aarne Ranta -- Type theory with records for natural language semantics / Robin Cooper and 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 -- Natural logic / Lawrence S. Moss -- The syntax-semantics interface : semantic roles and syntactic arguments / Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin -- Reference in discourse / Andrew Kehler -- Probabilistic semantics and pragmatics : uncertainty in language and thought / Noah D. Goodman and Daniel Lassiter -- Semantics and dialogue / David Schlangen -- Semantics and language acquisition / Eve V. Clark ER -