This volume contains the papers read at the conference on 'Semantics
from different points of view' that took place at Konstanz University in
Septem- ber 1978. This interdisciplinary conference Vias organized by
the': Sonderfor- schungsbereich 99 - Linguistik' and sponsored by the
Deutsche Forschungsge- meinschaft. Li guists, philosophers, logicians,
and psychologists met to dis- cuss recent developments in the study of
the semantics of natural language from the point of view of their
disciplines. But this is not to say that there was one particular topic
shared by all the participants. The conference was organized because the
seven research groups that constitute the Sonderforschungsbereich wanted
to discuss their results in an international context and to get advice
and guidance for the work still to be done. Therefore, quite a number of
topics were covered, though at different levels of precision, under the
general label 'semantics'. And the selection of topics, as well as the
relative importance given to them, is due to the research interests
currently represented in the Sonderforschungs- bereich.