Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium December 19 - 21, 2005

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by  Dekker P.

Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium
December 19 — 21, 2005

Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Amsterdam
Colloquium
December 19 — 21, 2005
Paul Dekker and Michael Franke (eds.)
ILLC/Department of Philosophy
University of Amsterdam
Printed by Grafisch Centrum Amsterdam
CoverdesignbyCrasborn Grafisch Ontwerpers bno
ISBN: 90-57761467
Preface
The 2005 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium is the Fifteenth in a series which
startedin1976.Originally,theAmsterdamColloquiumwasaninitiativeoftheDe-
partmentofPhilosophyoftheUniversityofAmsterdam.Since1984theColloquium
is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the
UniversityofAmsterdam.
These proceedingscontainthe abstractsof the paperspresentedat the colloquium.
In the first section one can find abstracts of the talks given by some of the invited
speakers,SigridBeckandNissimFrancez(jointtalkwithGiladBen-Avi).Thenext
twosectionscontaincontributionstothetwoworkshops:
! LanguageandLearning
! SemanticUniversals
Thefourthsectionconsistsofthecontributionstothegeneralprogram.Inallcases
thecopyrightresideswiththeindividualauthors.
For the organization of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium financial support is
receivedfrom:
• theRoyalDutchAcademyofSciences(KNAW)
• theNetherlandsOrganizationforScientificResearch(NWO)
• theInstituteforLogic,LanguageandComputation(ILLC)
• theNWO-fundedproject‘FormalLanguageGames’
• Springer
• thecityofAmsterdam
whichisgratefullyacknowledged.
The organizerswouldlike to thankthe authorsfortheir contributionandof course
themembersoftheprogramcommitteeforthegreatjobtheyhavedone:
! (localcommittee)JohanvanBenthem,MartinStokhof(chair),HenkZeevat
! (theinvitedspeakers)SigridBeck,NissimFrancez,ManfredKrifka,Lawrence
S.Moss
! (externalcommittee)DavidBeaver,BartGeurts,JackHoeksema,MarcusKracht,
AngelikaKratzer,MichaelMoortgat,HenriettedeSwart,EdeZimmermann
TheEditors
Amsterdam,November2005
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Contents
Preface...........................................................................v
Contents........................................................................vii
InvitedSpeakers ................................................................1
Asecondtimeandagain
SigridBeck ......................................................... 3
Proof-theoreticsemanticsforasyllogisticfragment
GiladBenAviandNissimFrancez .................................... 9
WorkshoponLanguageandLearning ........................................15
Localityandtheorderofacquisitionsteps
JacquelinevanKampen ............................................. 17
WorkshoponSemanticUniversals.............................................23
Prohibitives:whytwothirdsoftheworld’slanguagesareunlikeDutch
JohanvanderAuwera .............................................. 25
Association:across-linguisticexperiment
DavidGil .......................................................... 31
Caseandstrength
HelendeHoop ..................................................... 33
Howmuchlogicisbuiltintonaturallanguage?
EdKeenan ......................................................... 39
GeneralProgram ..............................................................45
FocusandnegativeconcordinHungarian
A´gnesBende-Farkas ................................................ 47
Dynamicsituations:accountingforDowty’sinertianotionusingdynamicsemantics
IdoBen-Zvi ........................................................ 53
Exhaustivity,homogeneityanddefiniteness
RichardBreheny ................................................... 59
Complexanaphors—ontologyandresolution
ManfredConstenandMareileKnees ................................. 65
Comicreliefforanankasticconditionals
TimFernando ...................................................... 71
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Achievingexpressivecompletenessandcomputationalefficiencyforunderspecified
scoperepresentations
ChrisFoxandShalomLappin ....................................... 77
Howandhownottoemploydiscourserelationstoaccountforpseudo-imperatives
MichaelFranke .................................................... 83
Agencyandcase:alattice-basedframework
ScottGrimm ....................................................... 89
DynamicWh-terms
AndreasHaida ..................................................... 95
ContrastivesandGriceanprinciple
YurieHara ........................................................ 101
Inference,ellipsisanddeaccenting
DanielHardt ...................................................... 107
Asymmetriesinlanguageuserevealasymmetriesinthegrammar
PetraHendriks,HelendeHoopandMoniqueLamers ................. 113
Apresuppositionalaccountofindexicals
JulieHunterandNicholasAsher .................................... 119
Independencefriendlylogicasastrategicgame
TheoM.V.Janssen ................................................ 125
When‘widening’istoonarrow
JacquesJayezandLuciaTovena .................................... 131
ScalaruseofOnlyinconditionals
SvetaKrasikovaandVentsislavZhechev ............................. 137
DonaldDuckisback,andhespeaksSpanish
LuisaMart´ı ....................................................... 143
Acompositionalsemanticsforlocatives
Ce´cileMeier ...................................................... 149
Comparativeswithoutdegrees:anewapproach
FriederikeMoltmann .............................................. 155
Synonymy,commonknowledge,andthesocialconstructionofmeaning
ReinhardMuskens ................................................ 161
Monotoneamazement
RickNouwen ..................................................... 167
Polarityitemsinbeforeclauses
FrancescaPanzeri ................................................. 173
Almost:atest?
DorisPenka ...................................................... 179
Semanticsofpossessivedeterminers
StanleyPetersandDagWestersta˚hl ................................. 185
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Determinersinaspectualcomposition
ChristopherPin˜o´n ................................................. 191
Scopedisambiguationbyellipsisandfocuswithoutscopeeconomy
MatsRooth ....................................................... 197
Thehelping-effectofdativecase
AntoniaRothmayr ................................................. 203
Againstpartitionedreadingsofreciprocals
SivanSabatoandYoadWinter ...................................... 209
SyntaxandsemanticsofcausaldenninGerman
TatjanaScheffler .................................................. 215
Theroleoflistsinacategorialanalysisofcoordination
MichaelSchiehlen ................................................. 221
Transparency:anincrementalaccountofpresuppositionprojection
PhilippeSchlenker ................................................ 227
Exhaustiveimperatives
MagdalenaSchwager .............................................. 233
Wordmeaning,unificationandsentence-internalpragmatics
TorgrimSolstad ................................................... 239
Causativeconstructionsandaspectualmeanings:acasestudyfromSemiticderiva-
tionalmorphology
ReutTsarfaty ..................................................... 245
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