Ebook: Logic, Language and Meaning: 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam , The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL....Pages 1-11
Context Probabilism....Pages 12-21
Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS)....Pages 22-31
Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation....Pages 32-41
Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge....Pages 42-51
Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem....Pages 52-61
When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents....Pages 62-71
When Disjunction Looks Like Conjunction: Pragmatic Consequences in ASL....Pages 72-81
Quantificational Strategies across Language Modalities....Pages 82-91
Degree Modification and Intensification in American Sign Language Adjectives....Pages 92-101
Experimenting with the King of France....Pages 102-111
Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence....Pages 112-121
Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English....Pages 122-132
Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite....Pages 133-142
Processing: Free Choice at No Cost....Pages 143-149
Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation....Pages 150-159
Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems....Pages 160-169
Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives?....Pages 170-179
Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity?....Pages 180-189
Projective Behaviour of Nur – Quantitative Experimental Research....Pages 190-199
Presupposition Projection Out of Quantified Sentences: Strengthening, Local Accommodation and Inter-speaker Variation....Pages 200-209
Focus, Evidentiality and Soft Triggers....Pages 210-219
Polarities in Logic and Semantics....Pages 220-229
Implicit Arguments: Event Modification or Option Type Categories?....Pages 230-239
Cross-Categorial Donkeys....Pages 240-250
On Wh-Exclamatives and Noteworthiness....Pages 251-260
Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences....Pages 261-270
Exclusive Updates....Pages 271-280
Steedman’s Temporality Proposal and Finite Automata....Pages 281-290
On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use....Pages 291-300
On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency....Pages 301-310
Pragmatic Constraints on Gesture Use: The Effect of Downward and Non Entailing Contexts on Gesture Processing....Pages 311-320
Sameness, Ellipsis and Anaphora....Pages 321-330
As Simple as It Seems....Pages 331-340
On the Non-licensing of NPIs in the Only-Focus....Pages 341-350
Obligatory Implicatures and Grammaticality....Pages 351-360
Only Only? An Experimental Window on Exclusiveness....Pages 361-370
On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses....Pages 371-380
Definiteness in Superlatives....Pages 381-390
The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs....Pages 391-400
Tropes, Intensional Relative Clauses, and the Notion of a Variable Object....Pages 401-410
A Theory of Names and True Intensionality....Pages 411-420
Multiple Foci in Japanese Clefts and the Growth of Semantic Representation....Pages 421-430
Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers....Pages 431-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-449
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