About this series:

Interest in semantics has exploded in a number of fields in recent years. Yet there are still many unresolved issues about basic issues in the field, as well as new questions that have arisen as a result of interdisciplinary engagement. What are word meanings, and where do they come from? How can we explain the learnability of language and its structured nature? What are the computational properties of language, and how does the brain implement these? How does individual cognition relate to the social aspect of meaning? These, and many more, have been raised or sharpened as a result of engagement with game theory, robotics, and deep learning, to name a few. Given the importance of meaning in human cognition and society at large, results in semantics bear on issues as diverse as legal decision-making the use of spoken dialogue systems to operate a robot on Mars.

The innovative edge of Elements in Semantics consists in three aspects in particular. First, we provide a platform that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of current work in semantics. Second, Elements will offer an integrated account of classical topics in semantics (e.g., negation, anaphora, conditionals) from a broader range of disciplines than traditional surveys. Third, Elements offers authors the ability to convey their research to audience in innovative ways, using in-line audio and video as well as in-line simulations and data analysis via runnable code snippets in a variety of programming languages.

Series Editors

Name: Jonathan Ginzburg

Biography: Jonathan Ginzburg is Professor of Linguistics at Université de Paris (formerly Paris 7). He has held appointments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and King’s College, London. He is one of the founders and  currently associate editor  of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. His research interests include semantics, dialogue, and language acquisition. He is the author of Interrogative Investigations (CSLI Publications, 2001, with Ivan A. Sag) and The Interactive Stance: meaning for conversation (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Name: Daniel Lassiter

Biography: Daniel Lassiter is Senior Lecturer in Semantics in Linguistics & English Language at the University of Edinburgh. He works on topics at the intersection of formal semantics/pragmatics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of language, including modality, conditionals, vagueness, scalar semantics, and Bayesian pragmatics. He is the author of Graded Modality (Oxford University Press, 2017) and numerous journal articles.

Contact the editors:

Jonathan Ginzburg: yonatan.ginzburg@u-paris.fr

Daniel Lassiter: dan.lassiter@ed.ac.uk

Areas of Interest

Foundations

Frameworks

Meaning and cognition

Meaning in Dialogue and Discourse

Classic Topics

Semantics beyond spoken language Meaning and Computation