This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception a
Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language p
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic t
Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook