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AMSTERDAM
14 years 10 months ago
2009 
In this paper I describe a formal semantics for iconic spatial gestures. My claim is that the meaning of iconic gestures can be captured with an appropriate mathematical theory of ...
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AMSTERDAM
14 years 10 months ago
2009
This paper offers an account of the semantics of count nous. I show that neither the atomic/nonatomic distinction nor the homogeneous/non-homogeneous distinction is sufficient to ...
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AMSTERDAM
14 years 10 months ago
2009
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 ...
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AMSTERDAM
14 years 10 months ago
2009
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...
AMSTERDAM
14 years 10 months ago
2009 
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...
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