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AMSTERDAM
2009
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Stephanie Solt
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English
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 ...
Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Some New Observations on 'Because (of)'
Because (of) is ambiguous between a `reason' and a `plain cause' interpretation. Presenting a semantic analysis within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, I...
Torgrim Solstad
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions
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...
Adrian Brasoveanu
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics
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...
Petra Hendriks
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Restricting and Embedding Imperatives
Abstract. We use imperatives to refute a na
Nate Charlow
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs
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...
Jessica Rett