This course is an examination of current research in linguistic semantics. The course covers a range of central topics, including the syntax/semantics interface and the nature of semantic compositionality; the semantic analysis of specific linguistic phenomena, such as plural number, generics, valence-changing operations, reflexives and reciprocals, modality, counterfactual conditionals; referential vs cognitive approaches to semantics; and modern approaches to the relation between semantics and pragmatics.