Logic, Language and Meaning
18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Published on 24. June 2012
XII, 482 pages
978-3-642-31482-7 (ISBN)
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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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Content
- Title
- Preface
- Organization
- Table of Contents
- Invited Speakers
- Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL
- Introduction: Sign Language Indexes as Formal Indices
- Complement Set Readings and Structural Iconicity
- The Phenomenon
- An Analysis with Structural Iconicity
- High Loci and Locus-External Iconicity
- The Phenomenon
- An Analysis with Iconic Presuppositions
- Further Application: Deictic Pronouns
- Directional Verbs and Locus-Internal Iconicity
- The Debate about Directional Verbs
- Iconic Effects with Directional Verbs
- An Analysis with Structured Loci
- References
- Context Probabilism
- Introduction
- A Textbook Propositional Dynamic Semantics
- Discontents of the Textbook Semantics
- Sharp Context Probabilism
- Blunt Context Probabilism
- Problems Solved
- Probability Conditions
- Dynamicness
- References
- Workshop on Inquisitiveness
- Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS)
- Introduction
- Previous Accounts
- The Proposal
- Puzzles Solved
- Counterargument Countered
- Future Work
- References
- Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation
- Introduction
- Negation in Simple Dialogue
- Negation and Types
- Negation and Inquisitiveness
- Alternatives
- Polar Interrogatives
- Conclusion
- References
- Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge
- Introduction
- Questions as Conditionals
- Inquisitiveness and Highlighted Alternatives
- The Topic Issue
- Our Analysis
- The Presence of auch
- Conclusion
- References
- Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem
- Introduction
- The Gettier Problem gettier
- Analysis in Inquisitive Semantics
- Disjunction in Alternative/Inquisitive Semantics
- First Attempt: Point-Wise Function Application
- Solution: Knowledge Requires a Strongest Justified Belief
- Extension to Interrogative Complements
- Other Putative Gettier Cases
- Conclusions and Remarks on Other Attitude Verbs
- References
- Workshop on Sign Language
- When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents
- Introduction
- Dependent Variables
- Specificity Marking
- Modal Subordination
- Prominent Narrow Scope Variables
- Conclusions
- References
- When Disjunction Looks Like Conjunction: Pragmatic Consequences in ASL
- Introduction
- Two Types of General Use Coordinators in ASL
- COORD-Shift
- COORD-L
- General Use Coordination in Other Languages
- Quantitative Measures of Scalar Implicatures Based on General Use Coordination
- Methods
- Procedures and Stimuli
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Quantificational Strategies across Language Modalities
- Introduction
- D-Quantification vs. A-Quantification
- A-Quantification Structures in SLs
- With Overt Operators
- Without Overt Operators
- D-Quantification and Partial Overt Realization of Tripartite Structures
- Lexical Quantification
- Conclusion
- References
- Degree Modification and Intensification in American Sign Language Adjectives
- Introduction
- Gradable Adjectives, Scales, and Degree Modification
- ASL Gradable Adjectives and Their Marking Under Degree Modification
- Plain Adjectives
- Phonological Marking of Intensification
- Adverbial Intensifiers
- 'Too Adjective to Verb'
- Putting the Pieces Together
- References
- Workshop on Formal Semantic Evidence
- Experimenting with the King of France
- Introduction
- Possible Factors behind Wavering Truth-Value Judgments
- The Experiment
- Results
- Data
- Interpreting the Results
- Further Discussion
- Topics and Verifiability
- A Problem for the Truth-Value Gap Approach
- Conclusion
- References
- Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence
- Introduction
- The Two Competing Analyses
- The Argument-Saturating Analysis
- The Modifier Analysis
- Predictions
- Method
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English
- The Phenomena
- Experiment
- Method
- Statistical Modeling and Resulting Generalizations
- Consequences for the Semantic Analysis of AOCs
- Conclusion
- References
- Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite
- Introduction
- Evaluative Gradable Adjectives and Scale Structure
- Gradable Adjectives and Scale Structure
- Evaluative Adjectives
- Corpus Study
- Corpus Collection and Processing
- The Tests
- Interpreting the Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Processing: Free Choice at No Cost
- Free Choice (FC)
- Scalar Implicatures
- Free Choice as a Kind of Scalar Implicatures
- Design
- Experiment 1
- Experiment 2
- Conclusion
- References
- Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation
- Introduction
- The Cards Corpus
- Relevance and the Evolving Task
- Experiments
- Experiment 1: Underspecified Card References
- Experiment 2: Unrestricted Quantification?
- Experiment 3: Goal-Based Domain Restriction
- Conclusion
- References
- Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems
- Introduction
- The Progressive and Left Anterior Negativity
- An Alternative Approach
- Conclusion
- References
- Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives?
- The Semantics of Gradable Adjectives
- Experiment 1: What Children Can Tell Us about the Semantics of Adjectives
- Experiment 2: What Adults Can Tell Us about the Semantics of Adjectives
- Conclusion
- References
- Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity?
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Projective Behaviour of Nur - Quantitative Experimental Research
- Introduction
- Projective Behaviour of Nur-Experiments
- Experimental Set-Up
- Methodology
- Results
- Projective Behaviour of Auch - Experiment
- Analysis
- Conclusion
- References
- Presupposition Processing - The Case of German wieder
- Introduction
- Background
- Experiment
- Methods and Material
- Results
- Discussion
- Follow-Up Rating Experiment
- Conclusion
- References
- Presupposition Projection Out of Quantified Sentences: Strengthening, Local Accommodation and Inter-speaker Variation
- Introduction
- Survey
- Design
- Results
- Trivalent Theory of Presupposition Projection
- Three Truth Values and the Felicity Condition
- Extension to Polar Questions
- Disjunctive Presuppositions for Quantified Sentences
- Two Strategies
- Account of the Generalizations
- References
- General Program
- Focus, Evidentiality and Soft Triggers
- Introduction
- Attention and Aboutness
- The Default Main Point
- Being about an Entity
- Triggering Mechanism-Default Version
- Triggering Mechanism-Context Sensitive Version
- References
- Polarities in Logic and Semantics
- Introduction
- Polarized Classical Non-associative Lambek Calculus
- Case Analyses
- Lexicon
- Object-Wide Scope
- Embedded Scope
- Scope Sieves
- Coordination and Intensionality
- Type-Shifting
- Evaluation
- Blocking Scopal Readings
- On Verbs Taking Clausal Complements
- Lambek-Grishin Calculus
- References
- Implicit Arguments: Event Modification or Option Type Categories?
- Introduction
- Meaning Postulates and Event Modification
- Option Types in Abstract Categorial Grammar
- Some Exceptional Cases
- A General Strategy of `Optionalization'
- Conclusions
- References
- Each vs. Jeweils: A Cover-Based View on Distance Distributivity
- Introduction
- Crosslinguistic Variation
- Distributivity Operators in Algebraic Event Semantics
- Each and Jeweils as Distributivity Operators
- Summary and Discussion
- References
- Cross-Categorial Donkeys
- Surprisingly Sloppy
- A Theory
- Conclusion
- References
- On Wh-Exclamatives and Noteworthiness
- Introduction
- Background: Scalarity in Exclamative Semantics
- The Scope of Noteworthiness
- Beyond English What-Exclamatives
- Proposal
- Wh-Exclamatives of Type 1
- Wh-Exclamatives of Type 2
- Discussion
- No Interaction with Degree Constructions
- An Extension to How-Exclamatives
- Conclusion
- References
- Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences
- Introduction
- Basic Definitions
- OPs of Determiners
- OPs of Iterated Quantifiers
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Exclusive Updates
- Introduction
- Framework
- Theory of Exclusives
- Examples
- Predicative Example
- Argument NP Example
- Conclusion
- References
- Steedman's Temporality Proposal and Finite Automata
- Introduction
- Causal Models
- Finite-State Temporality
- Inertia and Bounded Entailments
- References
- On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use
- Scale Types, and ``Kennedy's Observation''
- Explaining ``Kennedy's Observation''
- Referential Games
- Solving Referential Games
- References
- On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency
- Introduction
- Background
- Dysfluencies: Structure and Taxonomy
- Dialogue GameBoards
- Grounding and Clarification
- From CRs to Dysfluency: Informal Sketch
- Dysfluency Rules
- References
- Pragmatic Constraints on Gesture Use: The Effect of Downward and Non Entailing Contexts on Gesture Processing
- Introduction
- The Interpretation of Spontaneous Co-speech Gestures
- Pragmatic Constraints on Gesture Interpretation
- Experiment
- Experimental Setup
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Sameness, Ellipsis and Anaphora
- Introduction
- Same vs. Ellipsis and Anaphora
- Same Is Additive
- Scope
- Individuation
- Related Work
- Conclusions
- References
- As Simple as It Seems
- Introduction
- Not an Idiom
- Not Neg-Raising
- Movement
- Non-DE Adverbial Expressions
- Mobile PPIs
- PPIs Interpretable under a Clausemate Negation
- Escape of Seem
- Temporal and Aspectual Properties of the Infinitive
- Conclusion
- References
- On the Non-licensing of NPIs in the Only-Focus
- Introduction
- NPIs and Only
- NPIs in the Scope of Only and the SDE Condition
- NPIs in the Focus Associated with Only
- The Proposal
- Only and Innocent Exclusion
- NPI Licensing, the SDE Condition, and Context (In)Dependency
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Now: A Discourse-Based Theory
- Previous Discourse Accounts
- Rhetorical Contexts and now
- A Note about Contrast and Change of State
- References
- Obligatory Implicatures and Grammaticality
- The Puzzle
- Zweig's Dependent Plurality
- The Proposal
- Implications for the Theory of Scalar Implicatures
- Conclusion
- References
- Only Only? An Experimental Window on Exclusiveness
- Introduction
- Beaver and Clark's Approach
- Linguistic Observations
- The Tequila Test
- The Proposal
- Preliminary Discussion
- An Experimental Approach
- The Basic Protocol
- The Image-Based Protocol
- Results
- Discussion and Perspectives
- References
- On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses
- Introduction
- Two Tests for At-issue/Not-at-issue Content
- The Direct Reply Test
- The Answerability Test
- Intermediate Conclusions
- The Formal Account
- Previous Accounts of ARCs
- The Formal System
- The Account
- Conclusion and Beyond
- References
- Definiteness in Superlatives
- Introduction
- Absolute and Comparative Superlatives
- Distribution of the Definite Determiner
- Definite DP and Definite DegP
- DP-Internal Superlatives
- Superlatives as Plural Definites
- Comparison of Approaches
- Optionality
- Conclusion
- References
- The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs
- Introduction
- Discourse Meaning and Accommodation in LDG
- Reasoning towards Culmination
- The Implicative Condition
- Linguistic Presuppositions or Pragmatic Strengthening?
- Conclusion
- References
- Tropes, Intensional Relative Clauses, and the Notion of a Variable Object
- Introduction
- Trope Reference with NPs Containing Intensional Relative Clauses
- Approaches Based on Individual Concepts
- The Variable-Objects Approach
- The Modal Compatibility Requirement
- Conclusion
- References
- A Theory of Names and True Intensionality
- Introduction
- A Truly Intensional Logic
- Further Information about ITL
- Names in a Truly Intensional Setting
- Worlds, Necessity, and Rigidity
- Conclusion
- References
- Multiple Foci in Japanese Clefts and the Growth of Semantic Representation
- Introduction
- Framework: Dynamic Syntax
- Uniform Analysis of Clefts
- Clefts+P
- Multiple Foci
- Long-Distance Clefts
- Conclusion
- References
- Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers
- The Problem
- Background on Soft Presupposition Triggers
- Observations
- Observation A: The Definite Article Is a Soft Presupposition Trigger for Uniqueness
- Observation B: Soft Presupposition Triggers and Focus Alternatives
- Local Accommodation or Cancellation?
- Observation A+B and the Original Problem
- Conclusions
- References
- You Again: How Is Its Ambiguity Derived?
- Introduction
- Previous Analyses of English Again
- The Structural Analysis
- The Lexical Analysis
- Two Kinds of Restitutive Readings
- The Puzzle: The Ambiguity of You in Mandarin Chinese
- Scope Interaction between You and a Quantifier
- Analysis
- Further Arguments and Consequences
- Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
