ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2005. — 260 p.The 2005 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the colloquium.A second time and again
Sigrid Beck
Proof-theoretic semantics for a syllogistic fragment
Gilad Ben Avi and Nissim Francez
Workshop on Language and Learning
Locality and the order of acquisition steps
Jacqueline van Kampen
Workshop on Semantic Universals
Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are unlike Dutch
Johan van der Auwera
Association: a cross-linguistic experiment
David Gil
Case and strength
Helen de Hoop
How much logic is built into natural language?
Ed Keenan
General Program
Focus and negative concord in Hungarian
Agnes Bende-Farkas
Dynamic situations: accounting for Dowty’s inertia notion using dynamic semantics
Ido Ben-Zvi
Exhaustivity, homogeneity and definiteness
Richard Breheny
Complex anaphors—ontology and resolution
Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees
Comic relief for anankastic conditionals
Tim Fernando
Achieving expressive completeness and computational efficiency for underspecified scope representations
Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin
How and how not to employ discourse relations to account for pseudo-imperatives
Michael Franke
Agency and case: a lattice-based framework
Scott Grimm
Dynamic Wh-terms
Andreas Haida
Contrastives and Gricean principle
Yurie Hara
Inference, ellipsis and deaccenting
Daniel Hardt
Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar
Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop and Monique Lamers
A presuppositional account of indexicals
Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher
Independence friendly logic as a strategic game
Theo M.V. Janssen
When ‘widening’ is too narrow
Jacques Jayez and Lucia Tovena
Scalar use of Only in conditionals
Sveta Krasikova and Ventsislav Zhechev
Donald Duck is back, and he speaks Spanish
Luisa Mart´
A compositional semantics for locatives
C´ecile Meier
Comparatives without degrees: a new approach
Friederike Moltmann
Synonymy, common knowledge, and the social construction of meaning
Reinhard Muskens
Monotone amazement
Rick Nouwen
Polarity items in before clauses
Francesca Panzeri
Almost : a test?
Doris Penka
Semantics of possessive determiners
Stanley Peters and Dag Westerstahl
Determiners in aspectual composition
Christopher Pinon
Scope disambiguation by ellipsis and focus without scope economy
Mats Rooth
The helping-effect of dative case
Antonia Rothmayr
Against partitioned readings of reciprocals
Sivan Sabato and Yoad Winter
Syntax and semantics of causal denn in German
Tatjana Scheffler
The role of lists in a categorial analysis of coordination
Michael Schiehlen
Transparency: an incremental account of presupposition projection
Philippe Schlenker
Exhaustive imperatives
Magdalena Schwager
Word meaning, unification and sentence-internal pragmatics
Torgrim Solstad
Causative constructions and aspectual meanings: a case study from Semitic derivational morphology
Reut Tsarfaty
