Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

This would probably serve as an excellent review for those who have studied semantics and need to be reminded/updated on important topics. As a textbook for novices, though, it is very poor. The text is not written with ease of reading in mind (technical formulas are frequently used to explain points that would be much better explained in words). Technical terms are used without definitions, and the excercises require the reader to have not only understood the material completely, but to have read between the lines and filled in the gaps in the explanations. There are many typos and there are structural problems as well (use of endnotes instead of footnotes, no comprehensive biliography...). If you have already done quite a lot of semantics, this book may be of use to you; if you are thinking of using it as a class text or as a way to teach yourself this subject, look elsewhere.