Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Typographical Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What we are trying to do -- 1.2 The jewel in the crown -- 1.3 How to read this book -- 2 Basic Concepts -- 2.1 Semasiological and onomasiological perspectives -- 2.2 Meaning and reference -- 2.3 Describing or creating reality -- 2.4 The functions of language -- 2.5 Semantic units and semantic relations -- 2.6 Language, knowledge and perspective -- 2.7 Anthropomorphism, minimalism and practicality -- 2.8 Desiderata -- 3 Previous Approaches -- 3.1 Lexical semantics -- 3.2 Conceptual structures -- 3.3 Lexical relations and inheritance networks -- 3.4 The generative lexicon -- 3.5 Case grammar -- 3.6 Conceptual Dependency -- 3.7 Semantic networks -- 3.8 Systemic grammar -- 3.9 Truth-functional perspectives -- 3.10 Computational tools for semantic analysis -- 3.11 Models of text structure -- 3.12 Narrative structure and narrative prose generation -- 3.13 Knowledge representation and ontologies -- 3.14 Models of reasoning: ACT* and ACT-R -- 3.15 In sum -- 4 Semantic Expressions: Introduction -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Some caveats -- 4.3 Basic expressions -- 4.4 Semantic types -- 4.5 Semantic functions -- 4.6 The constant UNSPEC -- 4.7 Adjustments -- 4.8 Qualifiers -- 4.9 Relative qualifiers -- 4.10 Restriction versus description -- 4.11 Lists -- 4.12 Circumstances -- 4.13 Modifying completions -- 4.14 Adjustments versus functions -- 4.15 Modifying completions versus modifying actions -- 4.16 Combining completions -- 4.17 Representing semantics, not syntax -- 5 Formal Issues -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Properties of SEs -- 5.3 Semantic tree -- 5.4 The semantic lexicon -- 6 Semantic Expressions: Basic Features -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Generalized quantifiers -- 6.3 Count and mass entities.

6.4 Quantifier granularity -- 6.5 Negatives -- 6.6 Only -- 6.7 Numbers -- 6.8 On the granularity of snow -- 6.9 Nobody and everybody -- 6.10 Sets and set-difference -- 6.11 Interrogatives -- 6.12 Tense, aspect and modal verbs -- 6.13 Sequencing -- 6.14 Timestamps -- 6.15 Specific and non-specific entities -- 7 Advanced Features -- 7.1 Co-referential relations -- 7.2 Entity constants -- 7.3 Other constants -- 7.4 Scope of definition -- 7.5 Lists -- 7.6 Connectives -- 7.7 Associativity and commutativity -- 7.8 Propagation of adjustments -- 7.9 Other programming features -- 7.10 Functional programming -- 7.11 Duelling quantifiers -- 7.12 Two-dimensional quantifiers -- 7.13 Arrays -- 7.14 Football fans -- 7.15 only Revisited -- 7.16 Mass entities -- 7.17 Speakers, listeners and speech -- 7.18 Vale, Caesar -- 8 Applications: Capture -- 8.1 What to represent? -- 8.2 Adventure -- 8.3 A guided tour -- 8.4 Instruction manual or recipe book -- 8.5 Topoi -- 9 Three Little Pigs -- 9.1 Preliminaries -- 9.2 The story -- 9.3 Alternative segment for bad_encounter -- 9.4 Length issues -- 10 Applications: Creation -- 10.1 A hole in three -- 10.2 A Proppian fairy tale -- 10.3 Variant stories -- 10.4 Romeo and Juliet -- 10.5 In sum -- Bibliography -- Index.