This book contains the revised papers presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2009. The 41 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions presented together with the revised abstracts of 5 invited talks are organized in five sections: the first section contains extended abstracts of the talks given by the invited speakers; the second, third and fourth sections contain invited and submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops hosted by the colloquium: the Workshop on Implicature and Grammar, the Workshop on Natural Logic, and the Workshop on Vagueness; the final section consists of submissions to the general program. The topics covered range from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).
Author(s): Petra Hendriks (auth.), Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu de Jager, Katrin Schulz (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6042 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Commentary: Correct bookmarks, cover, pagination
Pages: 476
Tags: Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engineering
Front Matter....Pages -
Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics....Pages 1-10
Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets....Pages 11-20
Concealed Questions with Quantifiers....Pages 21-31
Specific, Yet Opaque....Pages 32-41
Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor....Pages 42-52
Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures....Pages 53-62
Local and Global Implicatures in Wh -Question Disjunctions....Pages 63-73
Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope....Pages 74-83
Natural Logic and Semantics....Pages 84-93
NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation....Pages 94-103
An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic....Pages 104-113
The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English....Pages 114-123
Extending Syllogistic Reasoning....Pages 124-132
Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives....Pages 133-142
Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates....Pages 143-152
Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty....Pages 153-162
Restricted Quantification over Tastes....Pages 163-172
Vagueness Facilitates Search....Pages 173-182
Meaning of ‘Now’ and Other Temporal Location Adverbs....Pages 183-192
Logical Consequence Inside Out....Pages 193-202
Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions....Pages 203-212
Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events and Thematic Roles....Pages 213-222
Restricting and Embedding Imperatives....Pages 223-233
A First-Order Inquisitive Semantics....Pages 234-243
There Is Something about Might ....Pages 244-253
Incommensurability....Pages 254-263
Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences....Pages 264-273
A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics....Pages 274-283
Rivalry between French – age and – ée : The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization....Pages 284-294
Free Choice from Iterated Best Response....Pages 295-304
A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures....Pages 305-314
On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals....Pages 315-324
Projective Meaning and Attachment....Pages 325-334
Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement....Pages 335-344
Two Puzzles about Requirements....Pages 345-354
Two Sources of Again -Ambiguities: Evidence from Degree-Achievement Predicates....Pages 355-363
Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs....Pages 364-373
Squiggly Issues: Alternative Sets, Complex DPs, and Intensionality....Pages 374-383
Disjunctive Questions, Intonation, and Highlighting....Pages 384-394
The Semantics of Count Nouns....Pages 395-404
Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-Type vs. Dynamic Accounts....Pages 405-415
Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig ....Pages 416-425
German Noch So : Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity Item....Pages 426-435
Some New Observations on ‘Because (of)’....Pages 436-445
Much Support and More ....Pages 446-455
Quantifiers and Working Memory....Pages 456-464
Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event....Pages 465-473
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