Presents a general introduction to semantics, including the most recent developments.

Ronnie Cann is a Reader in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.

1. Preliminaries for model building; 2. The syntax of logical inference; 3. The semantics of logical inference; 4. Quantification and plurality; 5. Anaphora, discourse and context; 6. Time, tense and events; 7. Ellipsis as a window on context; 8. What a word can mean.