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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 ...
AMSTERDAM
2009
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An argument by Kratzer (2000) based on Schein (1986, 1993) does not conclusively show that events and thematic roles are necessary ingredients of the logical representation of natu...
AMSTERDAM
2009
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Potts (2005, 2007) claims that Grice's `conventional implicatures' offer a powerful argument in favor of a multidimensional semantics, one in which certain expressions fa...
AMSTERDAM
2009
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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...
AMSTERDAM
2009
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Because (of) is ambiguous between a `reason' and a `plain cause' interpretation. Presenting a semantic analysis within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, I...