Preface -- Background. - 1. Introduction -- 2. Laboratory Set-up of Database Semantics -- 3. Outline of DBS -- 4. Software Mechanisms of the Content Kinds -- 5. Comparison of Coordination and Gapping -- 6. Are Iterating Slot-Filler Structures Universal? - 7. Computational Pragmatics -- 8. Discontinuous Structures in DBS and PSG -- 9. Classical Syllogisms as Computational Inferences -- 10. Grounding of Concepts in Science -- 11. Function Words -- 12. Language vs. Nonlanguage Cognition -- 13. Grammatical Disambiguation -- 14. Database Semantics vs. Predicate Calculus -- 15. Agent-Based Memory as an On-Board Database -- 16. David Hume's 'Causation' in Database Semantics -- 17. Concepts in Computational Cognition -- 18. Paraphrase and Ambiguity -- 19. Recursion and Grammatical Disambiguation -- Name Index - Bibliography.