This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the
What is the remit of theoretical linguistics? How are human languages different from animal calls or artificial languages? What philosophical insights about lan
Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook
Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answe
The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field, covering semantic research at both word and sentence level. It p