Abstract. Pratt and Third's syllogistic fragments of English can be used to capture, in addition to syllogistic reasoning, many other kinds of common sense reasoning, and, in ...
Because (of) is ambiguous between a `reason' and a `plain cause' interpretation. Presenting a semantic analysis within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, I...
The paper provides a compositional account of cumulative readings with non-increasing modified numerals (aka van Benthem's puzzle), e.g., Exactly three boys saw exactly five m...
This paper addresses the question whether and under which conditions hearers take into account the perspective of the speaker, and vice versa. Empirical evidence from computational...
Standard semantic accounts of the equative ascribe it an `at least' meaning, deriving an `exactly' reading when necessary via scalar implicature. I argue for a particular...