This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some
sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so it lays the groundwork for extending
semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic
with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world
and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of
linguistics today studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier
expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s at the interface
of linguistics mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume advances in classic generalized
quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics
this volume adds a computational component the third pillar of language use and logical
activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics philosophy cognitive
science logic AI and computer science.
