Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6042
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Maria Aloni Harald Bastiaanse
Tikitu de Jager Katrin Schulz (Eds.)
Logic, Language
and Meaning
17thAmsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009
Revised Selected Papers
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Preface
The 2009 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium was the 17th in a series which
started in 1976. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists,
philosophers,logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the for-
mal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages.
Originally an initiative of the Department of Philosophy, the colloquium is now
organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (illc) of the
University of Amsterdam.
These proceedings contain revised extended abstracts of most of the articles
presented at the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium.
Thefirstsectioncontainsextendedabstractsofthetalksgivenbytheinvited
speakers of the general program. The second, third and fourth sections contain
invited and submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops that were
hostedbythecolloquium:theworkshoponImplicature and Grammarorganized
by Maria Aloni and KatrinSchulz; the workshopon Natural Logic organizedby
Jan van Eijck; and the workshop on Vagueness, organized by Robert van Rooij
andFrank Veltman. The final sectionconsists of the submitted contributions to
the general program.
For the organization of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium financial support
was receivedfrom: the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (knaw); the Institute
for Logic, Language and Computation (illc); the nwo-funded project ‘Indef-
inites and Beyond: Evolutionary pragmatics and typological semantics’ (coor-
dinator: Maria Aloni); the nwo-funded project ‘Vagueness — and how to be
precise enough’ (coordinators: Robert van Rooij and Frank Veltman); and the
Municipality of Amsterdam. This support is gratefully acknowledged.
TheeditorswouldliketothankthemembersoftheProgramCommitteeand
the anonymous reviewersfor their help in the preparationof this volume. Many
thanks also to Paul Dekker, Fengkui Ju, Peter van Ormondt, Angelika Port,
Floris Roelofsen, Margaux Smets, Joel Uckelman, and Lucian Zagan, for help
with the organizationof the conference.
February 2010 Maria Aloni
Harald Bastiaanse
Tikitu de Jager
Katrin Schulz
Organization
Program Committee
Chair
Frank Veltman ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Local Committee
Johan van Benthem ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Robert van Rooij ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
External Committee
Henri¨ette de Swart OTS, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Ede Zimmermann Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Invited Speakers
Irene Heim MIT
Petra Hendriks Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Gerhard J¨ager University of Tu¨bingen, Germany
Fred Landman Tel Aviv University, Israel
Larry Moss Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Chris Potts Stanford University, CA, USA
Maribel Romero University of Konstanz, Germany
Roger Schwarzschild Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Zolt´an Szabo´ Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Workshop on Implicature and Grammar
Reinhard Blutner ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Angelika Port ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chris Potts Stanford University, CA, USA
Katrin Schulz (Chair) ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Henk Zeevat ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Workshop on Natural Logic
Jan van Eijck CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Workshop on Vagueness
Robert van Rooij ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Frank Veltman ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Table of Contents
Invited Speakers
Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics......................... 1
Petra Hendriks
Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets .......................... 11
Gerhard J¨ager
Concealed Questions with Quantifiers............................... 21
Maribel Romero
Specific, Yet Opaque ............................................. 32
Zolt´an Gendler Szab´o
Workshop on Implicature and Grammar
Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor......... 42
Christopher Davis and Christopher Potts
Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures ................... 53
Emmanuel Chemla and Benjamin Spector
Local and Global Implicatures in Wh-Question Disjunctions........... 63
Andreas Haida and Sophie Repp
Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope ............. 74
Philippe Schlenker
Workshop on Natural Logic
Natural Logic and Semantics ...................................... 84
Lawrence S. Moss
NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation ............... 94
Crit Cremers
An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic ...................... 104
Reinhard Muskens
The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English .......... 114
Camilo Thorne and Diego Calvanese
Extending Syllogistic Reasoning ................................... 124
Robert van Rooij
VIII Table of Contents
Workshop on Vagueness
Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives................. 133
Fred Landman
Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates ......................... 143
Tim Fernando
Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty............................ 153
Joey Frazee and David Beaver
Restricted Quantification over Tastes ............................... 163
Galit W. Sassoon
Vagueness Facilitates Search....................................... 173
Kees van Deemter
General Program
Meaning of ‘Now’ and Other Temporal Location Adverbs ............. 183
Daniel Altshuler
Logical Consequence Inside Out ................................... 193
Denis Bonnay and Dag Westerst˚ahl
Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions ............................ 203
Adrian Brasoveanu
Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events
and Thematic Roles .............................................. 213
Lucas Champollion
Restricting and Embedding Imperatives............................. 223
Nate Charlow
A First-Order Inquisitive Semantics ................................ 234
Ivano Ciardelli
There Is Something about Might ................................... 244
Paul J.E. Dekker
Incommensurability .............................................. 254
Jenny Doetjes
Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences .............................. 264
Jakub Dotlaˇcil
A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics ................................ 274
Regine Eckardt
Table of Contents IX
Rivalry betweenFrench–age and –´ee: The Role ofGrammaticalAspect
in Nominalization................................................ 284
Karen Ferret, Elena Soare, and Florence Villoing
Free Choice from Iterated Best Response............................ 295
Michael Franke
A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures...................... 305
Gianluca Giorgolo
On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals............ 315
Sabine Iatridou and Hedde Zeijlstra
Projective Meaning and Attachment................................ 325
Jacques Jayez
Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement ............................ 335
Mingya Liu
Two Puzzles about Requirements .................................. 345
Rick Nouwen
Two Sources of Again-Ambiguities: Evidence from Degree-Achievement
Predicates ...................................................... 355
Walter Pedersen
Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs .............................. 364
Jessica Rett
Squiggly Issues: Alternative Sets, Complex DPs, and Intensionality..... 374
Arndt Riester and Hans Kamp
Disjunctive Questions, Intonation, and Highlighting .................. 384
Floris Roelofsen and Sam van Gool
The Semantics of Count Nouns .................................... 395
Susan Rothstein
Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-Type vs. Dynamic
Accounts ....................................................... 405
Philippe Schlenker
Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig ............... 416
Magdalena Schwager
German Noch So: Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity
Item ........................................................... 426
Bernhard Schwarz
Some New Observations on ‘Because (of)’........................... 436
Torgrim Solstad