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 Jager, Katrin Schulz.
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
- X, 476p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6042 0302-9743 ; .
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 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-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.
9783642142871
10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1 doi
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Logic design.
Algebra--Data processing.
Artificial intelligence.
Information systems.
Computer Science.
Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation.
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
Logics and Meanings of Programs.
Software Engineering.
QA76.9.M35
005.131
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.
9783642142871
10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1 doi
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Logic design.
Algebra--Data processing.
Artificial intelligence.
Information systems.
Computer Science.
Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation.
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
Logics and Meanings of Programs.
Software Engineering.
QA76.9.M35
005.131