Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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This book contains the revised papers presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2009. The 41 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions presented together with the revised abstracts of 5 invited talks are organized in five sections: the first section contains extended abstracts of the talks given by the invited speakers; the second, third and fourth sections contain invited and submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops hosted by the colloquium: the Workshop on Implicature and Grammar, the Workshop on Natural Logic, and the Workshop on Vagueness; the final section consists of submissions to the general program. The topics covered range from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language). Front Matter....Pages - Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics....Pages 1-10 Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets....Pages 11-20 Concealed Questions with Quantifiers....Pages 21-31 Specific, Yet Opaque....Pages 32-41 Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor....Pages 42-52 Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures....Pages 53-62 Local and Global Implicatures in Wh -Question Disjunctions....Pages 63-73 Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope....Pages 74-83 Natural Logic and Semantics....Pages 84-93 NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation....Pages 94-103 An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic....Pages 104-113 The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English....Pages 114-123 Extending Syllogistic Reasoning....Pages 124-132 Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives....Pages 133-142 Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates....Pages 143-152 Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty....Pages 153-162 Restricted Quantification over Tastes....Pages 163-172 Vagueness Facilitates Search....Pages 173-182 Meaning of ‘Now’ and Other Temporal Location Adverbs....Pages 183-192 Logical Consequence Inside Out....Pages 193-202 Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions....Pages 203-212 Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events and Thematic Roles....Pages 213-222 Restricting and Embedding Imperatives....Pages 223-233 A First-Order Inquisitive Semantics....Pages 234-243 There Is Something about Might ....Pages 244-253 Incommensurability....Pages 254-263 Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences....Pages 264-273 A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics....Pages 274-283 Rivalry between French – age and – ée : The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization....Pages 284-294 Free Choice from Iterated Best Response....Pages 295-304 A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures....Pages 305-314 On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals....Pages 315-324 Projective Meaning and Attachment....Pages 325-334 Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement....Pages 335-344 Two Puzzles about Requirements....Pages 345-354 Two Sources of Again -Ambiguities: Evidence from Degree-Achievement Predicates....Pages 355-363 Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs....Pages 364-373 Squiggly Issues: Alternative Sets, Complex DPs, and Intensionality....Pages 374-383 Disjunctive Questions, Intonation, and Highlighting....Pages 384-394 The Semantics of Count Nouns....Pages 395-404 Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-Type vs. Dynamic Accounts....Pages 405-415 Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig ....Pages 416-425 German Noch So : Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity Item....Pages 426-435 Some New Observations on ‘Because (of)’....Pages 436-445 Much Support and More ....Pages 446-455 Quantifiers and Working Memory....Pages 456-464 Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event....Pages 465-473 Back Matter....Pages -