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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Generalized quantifiers in natural language semantics / Dag Westerst�eahl -- 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�asniewski -- 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.