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Logic, Language and Meaning

18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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  1. Maria Aloni

    1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Vadim Kimmelman

    1. ACLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Floris Roelofsen

    1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Galit W. Sassoon

    1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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    1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7218)

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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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Table of contents (48 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Speakers

    1. Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL

      • Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton
      Pages 1-11

    2. Context Probabilism

      • Seth Yalcin
      Pages 12-21

  3. Workshop on Inquisitiveness

    1. Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS)

      • Martin Aher
      Pages 22-31

    2. Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation

      • Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg
      Pages 32-41

    3. Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge

      • Edgar Onea, Markus Steinbach
      Pages 42-51

    4. Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem

      • Wataru Uegaki
      Pages 52-61

  5. Workshop on Formal Semantic Evidence

    1. Experimenting with the King of France

      • Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendröi
      Pages 102-111

    2. Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence

      • Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, Berit Gehrke, Louise McNally
      Pages 112-121

    3. Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English

      • Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil
      Pages 122-132

    4. Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite

      • Lisa Bylinina, Stas Zadorozhny
      Pages 133-142

    5. Processing: Free Choice at No Cost

      • Emmanuel Chemla, Lewis Bott
      Pages 143-149

    6. Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation

      • Alex Djalali, Sven Lauer, Christopher Potts
      Pages 150-159

    7. Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems

      • Ralf Naumann
      Pages 160-169

    8. Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives?

      • Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo
      Pages 170-179

    9. Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity?

      • Janina Radó, Oliver Bott
      Pages 180-189
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Editors and Affiliations

  • ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Galit W. Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Matthijs Westera

  • ACLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Vadim Kimmelman

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