Monotonicity in Logic and Language: Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning, Tllm 2020, Beijing, China, December 17-

ISBN-13: 9783662628423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 239 str.

Dun Deng; Fenrong Liu; Mingming Liu

Spis treści

New logical perspectives on monotonicity.- Universal free choice from concessive conditions in Tibetan.- Monotonicity in syntax.- Attributive measure phrases in Mandarin: monotonicity and distributivity.- Universal quanti cation in Mandarin.- Monotonicity in minimal change semantics, given Gärdenfors' triviality result.- Are causes ever too strong? Downward monotonicity causal domain.- Morphosyntactic patterns follow monotonic mappings.- Negative polarity additive particles.- A causal analysis of modal syllogisms.- Bipartite exhaustification: evidence from Vietnamese.- Comparatives bring a degree-based NPI licenser.