This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill University, Canada Alan Bale, Concordia University, Canada David Barner, University of California, San Diego, USA David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, USA Elizabeth Coppock, Gothenburg University, Sweden Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University, USA Clemens Mayr, Center for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany Paula Menéndez-Benito, University of Goettingen, Germany Marc Novel, University of Konstanz, Germany Daniele Panizza, University of Geneva, Switzerland Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz, Germany Jacopo Romoli, Macquarie University, Australia