Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics
Description
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference, LENLS21, held in Nagoya, Japan, during November 2025.
The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions.The conference presents a wide range on formal linguistics, computational linguistics, the philosophy of language, and related fields.
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A Proof-theoretic Analysis of VP Ellipsis.-
Deriving the diminishing effect.-
Anaphora in Static Orthodox First-Order Logic.-
Where hyperbole and incrementality meet: The curious case of Mandarin incremental hai.-
Phrasal Comparatives of Gilgiti-Shina.-
Singular generic `the' and uniqueness.-
Fake nouns: reconsidering the role of presupposition in reference.-
Scope Ambiguity of Polar / Alternative Questions.-
Beyond personae: honest failures in projecting social meaning.-
The semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese emphatic expression hodo-ga aru there is a limit'.-
Lemons to vitamin C: Mapping between amounts with Japanese bun 'amount'.-
Concessive Marking in French: pourtant vs. quand même.-
Where does anti-uniqueness come from? A case study of English demonstratives.-
Dependency Relations Inform Quantificational Scope.-
On the Use of Binary Relations as Collective Predicates in Natural Mathematics.-
Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Logic of Multidimensional Predicates.