Yorick Wilks has suggested the use of preferences rather than absolute restrictions for the selection of sense meanings. The preferences are numbers that express the ``goodness of fit'' of representations.
Would you hit a woman with a child?The humor derives from the violation of a selection restriction -- the use of child as instrument of the hitting. Preference semantics would indicate that such an interpretation is not preferred, but is not impossible.
No, I'd hit her with a brick.[``The eternal question and immortal answer of burlesque.'' -- e.e. cummings]