available review semantics books listed linguist office available review interested reviewing book leading discussion book please contact book review editor andrew carnie ph carnie linguistlist org please include request message brief statement research interests background affiliation information might valuable help us select suitable reviewer include electronic cv url linking personal homepage ignored please also send surface mail address us send book semantics ishikawa kiyoshi 1998 network thoery reference iulc publications bloomington noting specific inadequacies truthconditional approaches ishikawa develops dynamic theory reference incorporating features discourse representation theory file change semantics situation semantics also deals nonmonotonic belief revision argues task natural language semantics describe meaning terms psychological relation language cognition external reality approach linguistic expression meaning potential change information state cognitive agent reference understood link real individual external agent agent act link character linguistic frame individuation characters linguistic nonlinguistic frames target inquiry distinction referential attributive uses definite descriptions analyzed construction conversation scenarios addition ishikawa extends theory analysis belief attitude reports application theory cleft pseudocleft constructions also outlined semantics klein henny 1997 adverbs degree dutch related languages john benjamins