This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.

This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades.

• focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language
  
• proposes a theory that offers a promising framework for developing a computational semantic system sufficiently expressive to capture the properties of natural language meaning while remaining computationally...

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

• Features contributions by the top researchers in the field, reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forward
• Includes an introduction to the major theoretical issues in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has produced
• Presents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the...

The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics.

• Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
• Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research
• Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to...