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Work on this handbook began in 1992, when I was a Research Staff Member in the Computer Science Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York. The book came along when I moved to London in the summer of 1993 to take up a position in the Linguistics Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. That it was finished is due, in no small measure, to the help and support which I received from numerous people. I am grateful to the contributors for their cooperation and patience during the extended process of assembling and editing the papers in the volume. Reading and discussing their articles with them has given me a wonderful perspective on the depth and range of current research at the frontiers of contemporary semantic theory. My editors at Blackwell, Philip Carpenter, Steven Smith, and Bridget Jennings, have provided much help, advice, and encouragement. I would like to thank Robert May for very useful advice on the design and structure of the Handbook. Ruth Kempson has given me invaluable support and critical discussion. I am grateful to my wife, Elena, whose love and good natured tolerance have been indispensable to the completion of this project. She carries heavy editorial responsibilities of her own, but never failed to display full understanding of the demands which the handbook involved. Finally, I must thank my children, ... log in or subscribe to read full text