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Semantica is the manual for a new software application that allows the user to explore the semantic structure of language in an interactive way. The program, which was produced as part of a National Science Foundation initiative for improving linguistics instruction, complements Syntactica, is a tool for studying natural language syntax. Semantica provides a simple graphical interface for creating semantic theories, viewing the truth conditions that those theories assign to phrase-markers created in Syntactica, and for testing those truth conditions in a pictorially represented world. Although designed for use in introductory semantics courses, Semantica has features that should appeal to professionals. For example, it can be used as a Oderivation calculator in following out complex semantic derivations involving many steps and operations.

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... Semantica is a graceful tool for visualizing the workings of formal semantics, both derivations and models. Virtually all students will need it. --Edwin Williams, Professor of Linguistics, Princeton University

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Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. David S. Warren is Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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