Logic, Language and Meaning

17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

488 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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-AchievementPredicates.- 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.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Angewandte Informatik Digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Computer-Anwendungen in Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783642142864
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2010
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: J.B. Metzler
• Herausgegeben von: Harald Bastiaanse, Maria Aloni, Katrin Schulz, Tikitu De Jager