Logic, Language and Meaning 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers / [electronic resource] :
edited by Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu de Jager, Katrin Schulz.
- 1st ed. 2010.
- X, 476 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6042 2945-9141 ; .
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6042 .
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.
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Computer programming. Software engineering. Compilers (Computer programs). Computer science--Mathematics. Digital humanities. Machine theory. Programming Techniques. Software Engineering. Compilers and Interpreters. Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation. Digital Humanities. Formal Languages and Automata Theory.