Semantica Version 10 - for NeXTStep Author:Richard K. Larson, David S. Warren, Juliana Freire, Patricia Gomez, Konstatinos Sagonas "... 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 Semantica is the manual for a new software application that allows the user to explore the semantic structure of la... more »nguage in an engaging, interactive way. The program, which was produced as part of a National Science Foundation initiative for improving linguistics instruction, is designed to be used with Syntactica, 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 will appeal to professionals. For example, it can be used as a "derivation calculator" in following out complex semantic derivations involving many steps and operations. Manual plus NeXTStep software for PCs and NeXTStations running NeXTStep version 3.2 or higher. More on Semantica ...« less