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AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events and Thematic Roles
An argument by Kratzer (2000) based on Schein (1986, 1993) does not conclusively show that events and thematic roles are necessary ingredients of the logical representation of natu...
Lucas Champollion
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty
Joey Frazee, David Beaver
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope
Potts (2005, 2007) claims that Grice's `conventional implicatures' offer a powerful argument in favor of a multidimensional semantics, one in which certain expressions fa...
Philippe Schlenker
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Quantifiers and Working Memory
The paper presents a study examining the role of working memory in quantifier verification. We created situations similar to the span task to compare numerical quantifiers of low a...
Jakub Szymanik, Marcin Zajenkowski
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Logical Consequence Inside Out
Denis Bonnay, Dag Westerståhl
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets
The paper presents a statistical evaluation of the typological data about color naming systems across the languages of the world that have been obtained by the World Color Survey....
Gerhard Jäger
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Much Support and More
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