Logic, Language and Meaning: 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam , The Netherlands, December 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages -
Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL....Pages 1-11
Context Probabilism....Pages 12-21
Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS)....Pages 22-31
Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation....Pages 32-41
Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge....Pages 42-51
Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem....Pages 52-61
When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents....Pages 62-71
When Disjunction Looks Like Conjunction: Pragmatic Consequences in ASL....Pages 72-81
Quantificational Strategies across Language Modalities....Pages 82-91
Degree Modification and Intensification in American Sign Language Adjectives....Pages 92-101
Experimenting with the King of France....Pages 102-111
Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence....Pages 112-121
Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English....Pages 122-132
Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite....Pages 133-142
Processing: Free Choice at No Cost....Pages 143-149
Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation....Pages 150-159
Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems....Pages 160-169
Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives?....Pages 170-179
Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity?....Pages 180-189
Projective Behaviour of Nur – Quantitative Experimental Research....Pages 190-199
Presupposition Processing – The Case of German wieder ....Pages 200-209
Presupposition Projection Out of Quantified Sentences: Strengthening, Local Accommodation and Inter-speaker Variation....Pages 210-219
Focus, Evidentiality and Soft Triggers....Pages 220-229
Polarities in Logic and Semantics....Pages 230-239
Implicit Arguments: Event Modification or Option Type Categories?....Pages 240-250
 Each vs. Jeweils : A Cover-Based View on Distance Distributivity....Pages 251-260
Cross-Categorial Donkeys....Pages 261-270
On Wh -Exclamatives and Noteworthiness....Pages 271-280
Generalizing Monotonicity Inferences to Opposition Inferences....Pages 281-290
Exclusive Updates....Pages 291-300
Steedman’s Temporality Proposal and Finite Automata....Pages 301-310
On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use....Pages 311-320
On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dysfluency....Pages 321-330
Pragmatic Constraints on Gesture Use: The Effect of Downward and Non Entailing Contexts on Gesture Processing....Pages 331-340
Sameness, Ellipsis and Anaphora....Pages 341-350
As Simple as It Seems....Pages 351-360
On the Non-licensing of NPIs in the Only -Focus....Pages 361-370
 Now : A Discourse-Based Theory....Pages 371-380
Obligatory Implicatures and Grammaticality....Pages 381-390
Only Only ? An Experimental Window on Exclusiveness....Pages 391-400
On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses....Pages 401-410
Definiteness in Superlatives....Pages 411-420
The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs....Pages 421-430
Tropes, Intensional Relative Clauses, and the Notion of a Variable Object....Pages 431-440
A Theory of Names and True Intensionality....Pages 441-449
Multiple Foci in Japanese Clefts and the Growth of Semantic Representation....Pages 450-459
Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers....Pages 460-469
 You Again: How Is Its Ambiguity Derived?....Pages 470-479
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