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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 v 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 vii 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 viii 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 ix
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