Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium December 17 — 19, 2007 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium December 17 — 19, 2007 Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker and Floris Roelofsen (eds.) ILLC/Department of Philosophy University of Amsterdam Printed by Palteam CoverdesignbyCrasborn Grafisch Ontwerpers bno ISBN: 978-90-812643-1-0 Preface The 2007edition of the AmsterdamColloquium is the Sixteenth in a series which startedin1976.Originally,theAmsterdamColloquiumwasaninitiativeoftheDe- partmentofPhilosophyoftheUniversityofAmsterdam.Since1984theColloquium is organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the UniversityofAmsterdam. Theseproceedingscontaintheabstractsofmostofthepaperspresentedatthecollo- quium.Inthefirstsectiononecanfindabstractsoftalksgivenbytheinvitedspeakers. Thesecondsectioncontainscontributionstotheworkshoponuninterpretability,co- organizedby HeddeZeijlstra. The third sectionconsists of the contributionsto the generalprogram.Inallcasesthecopyrightresideswiththeindividualauthors. FortheorganizationoftheSixteenthAmsterdamColloquiumfinancialsupporthas beenreceivedfrom: • theRoyalDutchAcademyofSciences(KNAW) • theNetherlandsOrganizationforScientificResearch(NWO) • theInstituteforLogic,LanguageandComputation(ILLC) • theNWO-fundedproject‘FormalLanguageGames’ • Springer • themunicipalityofthecityofAmsterdam whichisgratefullyacknowledged. The organizerswouldlike to thankthe authorsfortheir contributionandof course themembersoftheprogramcommitteeforthegreatjobtheyhavedone: ≫ (localcommittee)JohanvanBenthem,RobertvanRooij,andMartinStokhof (chair) ≫ (theinvitedspeakers)DavidBeaver,PatrickBlackburn,PaulineJacobson,An- gelikaKratzer,LouiseMcNally,JamesPustejovsky,andAnnaSzabolcsi ≫ (externalcommittee)BartGeurts,MarcusKracht,ReinhardMuskens,Henrie¨tte deSwart,EdeZimmermann TheEditors Amsterdam,November2007 v Contents Preface...........................................................................v Contents........................................................................vii InvitedSpeakers ................................................................1 Onthelogicofverbalmodification DavidBeaverandCleoCondoravdi ................................... 3 Donegativepolarityitemsfacilitatetheprocessingofdecreasinginferences? AnnaSzabolcsi ..................................................... 11 WorkshoponUninterpretability ...............................................17 Uninterpretablenegativefeaturesonnegativeindefinites DorisPenka ........................................................ 19 Modalverbsincomplementclauses-redundantornot? JenniferRau ....................................................... 23 Englishpastandperfectassemanticallyvacuousmoodmarkers KatrinSchulz ...................................................... 27 Uninterpretation OrinPercus ........................................................ 31 GeneralProgram ..............................................................35 Temporalandcircumstantialdependenceincounterfactualmodals DoritAbusch ...................................................... 37 DiscoursecoherenceandVPellipsiswithsplitantecedents AdamCharlesBaker ................................................ 43 Aspectandcoercioninancientgreek CorienBaryandMarkusEgg ........................................ 49 Resultativesanddynamicsemantics AgnesBende-Farkas ................................................ 55 Quantityimplicaturesinextendedlogicprogramming GerbenKlaasDirkdeVries ......................................... 61 TheSemanticsofWh-Questionswiththeverbal”How”inMandarin HongyuanDong .................................................... 67 Meaninganduseofrhetoricalquestions MarkusEgg ........................................................ 73 Inclusiveandexclusivepluralsreconciledbythestrongestmeaninghypothesis DonkaFarkasandHenrie¨ttedeSwart ................................. 79 vii Quantificationinexistentialcodas ItamarFrancez ..................................................... 85 Thepragmaticsofbiscuitconditionals MichaelFranke .................................................... 91 Therelevanceofawareness MichaelFrankeandTikitudeJager .................................. 97 Lowriskquantifiers.Agame-theoreticalapproximationtotheDP-restrictiononIV2- presentationals Hans-MartinGaertner ............................................. 103 Specificityandimplicatures LjudmilaGeistandEdgarOnea ..................................... 109 Howtounifyrestrictiveandnon-restrictiveif-clauses JannekeHuitink ................................................... 115 Evolutionarystabilityofgameswithcostlysignaling GerhardJaeger .................................................... 121 Subtrigging,counterpartsandlaws JacquesJayezandLuciaTovena .................................... 127 Quantificationinthan-clauses SvetaKrasikova ................................................... 133 Contextualityassupervenience ManfredKupffer .................................................. 139 Quotationmarksasmonsters,ortheotherwayaround? EmarMaier ....................................................... 145 Tense,abilitiesandactualityentailment AldaMariandFabienneMartin ..................................... 151 Dynamicsofreflexivityandreciprocity SarahMurray ..................................................... 157 Massnounsandplurallogic DavidNicolas ..................................................... 163 Exhaustivity,focusandincorporationinHungarian EdgarOnea ....................................................... 169 Onthelogicofcommunicativeacts ChristianPlunze .................................................. 175 Interventioneffectsforinversescopereadings:aDRTaccount ManfredSailer .................................................... 181 DavidLewismeetsArthurPrioragain KatsuhikoSano ................................................... 187 Counterfactualconditionalsanddynamiclaws KatrinSchulz ..................................................... 193 viii Causalreferenceandinversescopeasmixedquotation Chung-chiehShan ................................................. 199 Metalinguisticsemanticsforechoquestions YasutadaSudo .................................................... 205 Computationalcomplexityofreciprocals JakubSzymanik ................................................... 211 Pluractionalityvs.discontinuity SergeiTatevosov .................................................. 217 Grammaticalinferencebyspecializationasastatesplittingstrategy IsabelleTellier .................................................... 223 Ontheoptimaluseofalmostandbarelyinargumentation RichardvanGerrevinkandHelendeHoop ........................... 229 Theepistemicsofpresuppositionprojection JanvanEijckandChristinaUnger .................................. 235 OnthesemanticsofmodalparticledeinMandarinChinese ZhiguoXie ....................................................... 241 Partitionsemanticsofatleastandatmost KatsuhikoYabushita ............................................... 247 ix
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