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Author Amsterdam Colloquium (18th : 2011 : Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Title Logic, language and meaning : 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised selected papers / Maria Aloni [and others] (eds.)
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 482 pages) : illustrations
Series Lecture notes in computer science, 1611-3349 ; 7218
FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information
LNCS sublibrary. SL 1, Theoretical computer science and general issues
Lecture notes in computer science ; 7218. 1611-3349
Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence. FoLLI publications on logic, language and information.
LNCS sublibrary. SL 1, Theoretical computer science and general issues.
Contents Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL / Philippe Schlenker and Jonathan Lamberton -- Context Probabilism / Seth Yalcin -- Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS) / Martin Aher -- Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation / Robin Cooper and Jonathan Ginzburg -- Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge / Edgar Onea and Markus Steinbach -- Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem / Wataru Uegaki -- When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents / Gemma Barberà -- When Disjunction Looks Like Conjunction: Pragmatic Consequences in ASL / Kathryn Davidson -- Quantificational Strategies across Language Modalities / Josep Quer -- Degree Modification and Intensification in American Sign Language Adjectives / Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evie Malaia and Robin A. Shay -- Experimenting with the King of France / Márta Abrusán and Kriszta Szendröi -- Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence / Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, Berit Gehrke and Louise McNally -- Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English: An Experimental Study / Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlačil -- Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite / Lisa Bylinina and Stas Zadorozhny
Processing: Free Choice at No Cost / Emmanuel Chemla and Lewis Bott -- Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation / Alex Djalali, Sven Lauer and Christopher Potts -- Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems / Ralf Naumann -- Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives? / Francesca Panzeri and Francesca Foppolo -- Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity? / Janina Radó and Oliver Bott -- Projective Behaviour of Nur -- Quantitative Experimental Research / Agata Maria Renans -- Presupposition Processing -- The Case of German wieder / Florian Schwarz and Sonja Tiemann -- Presupposition Projection Out of Quantified Sentences: Strengthening, Local Accommodation and Inter-speaker Variation / Yasutada Sudo, Jacopo Romoli, Martin Hackl and Danny Fox -- Focus, Evidentiality and Soft Triggers / Márta Abrusán -- Polarities in Logic and Semantics / Arno Bastenhof -- Implicit Arguments: Event Modification or Option Type Categories? / Chris Blom, Philippe de Groote, Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts -- Each vs. Jeweils: A Cover-Based View on Distance Distributivity / Lucas Champollion -- Cross-Categorial Donkeys / Simon Charlow -- On Wh-Exclamatives and Noteworthiness / Anna Chernilovskaya and Rick Nouwen
Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences / Ka-Fat Chow -- Exclusive Updates / Elizabeth Coppock and David Beaver -- Steedman's Temporality Proposal and Finite Automata / Tim Fernando -- On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use / Michael Franke -- On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency / Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen -- Pragmatic Constraints on Gesture Use: The Effect of Downward and Non Entailing Contexts on Gesture Processing / Gianluca Giorgolo and Stephanie Needham -- Sameness, Ellipsis and Anaphora / Daniel Hardt, Line Mikkelsen and Bjarne Ørsnes -- As Simple as It Seems / Vincent Homer -- On the Non-licensing of NPIs in the Only-Focus / I-Ta Chris Hsieh -- Now: A Discourse-Based Theory / Julie Hunter -- Obligatory Implicatures and Grammaticality / Natalia Ivlieva -- Only Only? An Experimental Window on Exclusiveness / Jacques Jayez and Bob van Tiel -- On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses / Todor Koev -- Definiteness in Superlatives / Sveta Krasikova -- The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs / Noor van Leusen -- Tropes, Intensional Relative Clauses, and the Notion of a Variable Object / Friederike Moltmann -- A Theory of Names and True Intensionality / Reinhard Muskens -- Multiple Foci in Japanese Clefts and the Growth of Semantic Representation / Tohru Seraku -- Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers / Andreas Walker -- You Again: How Is Its Ambiguity Derived? / Ting Xu
Summary This book contains the revised papers presented at the 8th Amsterdam Colloquium 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2011. The 46 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions out of 137 submissions presented together with 2 invited talks are organized in five sections. The first section contains the invited contributions. The second, third and fourth sections incorporate submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops that were hosted by the Colloquium and addressed the following topics: inquisitiveness; formal semantics and pragmatics of sign languages, formal semantic evidence. The final section presents the submitted contributions to the general program
Analysis Computer science
Artificial intelligence
Translators (Computer programs)
Computer vision
Information systems
Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
Language Translation and Linguistics
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
Computers and Society
Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 9, 2012)
Subject Language and logic -- Congresses
Semantics -- Congresses
Computer logic -- Congresses
Informatique.
Computer logic
Language and logic
Semantics
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Aloni, Maria.
ISBN 9783642314827
3642314821
Other Titles Amsterdam Colloquium 2011