Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium December 19 - 21, 2005

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ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2005. — 260 p.The 2005 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the colloquium.A second time and againSigrid BeckProof-theoretic semantics for a syllogistic fragmentGilad Ben Avi and Nissim FrancezWorkshop on Language and Learning Locality and the order of acquisition stepsJacqueline van Kampen Workshop on Semantic Universals Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are unlike DutchJohan van der Auwera Association: a cross-linguistic experimentDavid GilCase and strengthHelen de Hoop How much logic is built into natural language?Ed Keenan General Program Focus and negative concord in HungarianAgnes Bende-Farkas Dynamic situations: accounting for Dowty’s inertia notion using dynamic semanticsIdo Ben-Zvi Exhaustivity, homogeneity and definitenessRichard BrehenyComplex anaphors—ontology and resolutionManfred Consten and Mareile Knees Comic relief for anankastic conditionalsTim FernandoAchieving expressive completeness and computational efficiency for underspecified scope representationsChris Fox and Shalom Lappin How and how not to employ discourse relations to account for pseudo-imperativesMichael Franke Agency and case: a lattice-based frameworkScott Grimm Dynamic Wh-termsAndreas Haida Contrastives and Gricean principleYurie Hara Inference, ellipsis and deaccentingDaniel HardtAsymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammarPetra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop and Monique Lamers A presuppositional account of indexicalsJulie Hunter and Nicholas AsherIndependence friendly logic as a strategic gameTheo M.V. JanssenWhen ‘widening’ is too narrowJacques Jayez and Lucia TovenaScalar use of Only in conditionalsSveta Krasikova and Ventsislav ZhechevDonald Duck is back, and he speaks SpanishLuisa Mart´A compositional semantics for locativesC´ecile Meier Comparatives without degrees: a new approachFriederike Moltmann Synonymy, common knowledge, and the social construction of meaningReinhard Muskens Monotone amazementRick Nouwen Polarity items in before clausesFrancesca PanzeriAlmost : a test?Doris Penka Semantics of possessive determinersStanley Peters and Dag Westerstahl Determiners in aspectual compositionChristopher PinonScope disambiguation by ellipsis and focus without scope economyMats Rooth The helping-effect of dative caseAntonia RothmayrAgainst partitioned readings of reciprocalsSivan Sabato and Yoad WinterSyntax and semantics of causal denn in GermanTatjana Scheffler The role of lists in a categorial analysis of coordinationMichael Schiehlen Transparency: an incremental account of presupposition projectionPhilippe Schlenker Exhaustive imperativesMagdalena Schwager Word meaning, unification and sentence-internal pragmaticsTorgrim SolstadCausative constructions and aspectual meanings: a case study from Semitic derivational morphologyReut Tsarfaty