Logic, Language and Meaning

ISBN-13: 9783642142864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 476 str.

Maria Aloni; Harald Bastiaanse; Tikitu De Jager

Opis

Contains the revised papers presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2009.

Spis treści

Invited Speakers.- Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics.- Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets.- Concealed Questions with Quantifiers.- Specific, Yet Opaque.- Workshop on Implicature and Grammar.- Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor.- Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures.- Local and Global Implicatures in Wh-Question Disjunctions.- Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope.- Workshop on Natural Logic.- Natural Logic and Semantics.- NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation.- An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic.- The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English.- Extending Syllogistic Reasoning.- Workshop on Vagueness.- Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives.- Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates.- Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty.- Restricted Quantification over Tastes.- Vagueness Facilitates Search.- General Program.- Meaning of ‘Now’ and Other Temporal Location Adverbs.- Logical Consequence Inside Out.- Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions.- Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events and Thematic Roles.- Restricting and Embedding Imperatives.- A First-Order Inquisitive Semantics.- There Is Something about Might.- Incommensurability.- Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences.- A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics.- Rivalry between French –age and –ée: The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization.- Free Choice from Iterated Best Response.- A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures.- On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals.- Projective Meaning and Attachment.- Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement.- Two Puzzles about Requirements.- Two Sources of Again-Ambiguities: Evidence from Degree-Achievement Predicates.- Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs.- Squiggly Issues: Alternative Sets, Complex DPs, and Intensionality.- Disjunctive Questions, Intonation, and Highlighting.- The Semantics of Count Nouns.- Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-Type vs. Dynamic Accounts.- Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig.- German Noch So: Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity Item.- Some New Observations on ‘Because (of)’.- Much Support and More.- Quantifiers and Working Memory.- Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event.

O autorze

Katrin Schulz, Diplompädagogin, ist als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Hamburg in den Projekten VAMB/VAmB beschäftigt.