Aloni Maria, Dekker Paul (Editors). The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xii, 925 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02839-5.Formal semantics – the scientific study of meaning in natural language – is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.The landscape of formal semantics
Formal semantics
Lexical semantics
Sentential semantics
Discourse semantics
Semantics of dialogue
Theory of reference and quantificationGeneralized quantifiers
Indefinites
Plurality
Genericity
Temporal and aspectual ontology and other semantic structures
Tense
Aspect
Mereology
Vagueness
Modification
Intensionality and force
Negation
Conditionals
Modality
Questions
Imperatives
The interfaces
The syntax–semantics interface
The semantics–pragmatics interface
Information structure
Semantics and cognition
Semantics and computation