Minimal recursion semantics (MRS) is a framework for computational semantics that is
suitable for parsing and generation and that can be implemented in typed feature structure …

Clauses and sentences rarely stand on their own in an actual discourse; rather, the
relationship between them carries important information that allows the discourse to express …

Semantic underspecification is a technique to capture several readings of an ambiguous
expression in one single representation by deliberately omitting the differences between the …

The gestures that speakers use in tandem with speech include not only conventionalized
actions with identifiable meanings (so-called narrow gloss gestures or emblems) but also …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Semanticists use a range of highly expressive logical languages to characterize the
meaning of natural language expressions. The logical languages are usually taken from an …

This paper provides a logically precise analysis of agreement and disputes in dialogue. The
semantics distinguishes among the public commitments of each dialogue agent, including …

This thesis is concerned with the syntax, compositional semantics and contextually-situated
interpretation of a certain kind of non-sentential utterance occuring in dialogue, namely one …

By “reinterpretation” Egg means to include various phenomena hitherto treated separately:
metonymy (Amelie labeled the wine, ie, bottles of wine; All the tenors are on the top shelf, ie …

Compare the sentences in (1):(1) a. Peter is swimming in Barton Spring Pool. b. Peter was
swimming in Barton Spring Pool. c. Peter swam in Barton Spring Pool. Any speaker of …