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AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics
This paper addresses the question whether and under which conditions hearers take into account the perspective of the speaker, and vice versa. Empirical evidence from computational...
Petra Hendriks
FM
2009
Springer
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Abstract Object Creation in Dynamic Logic
Object Creation in Dynamic Logic to be or not to be created Wolfgang Ahrendt1 Frank S. de Boer2 Immo Grabe3 1Chalmers University, G¨oteborg, Sweden 2CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherland...
Wolfgang Ahrendt, Frank S. de Boer, Immo Grabe
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
The Semantics of Count Nouns
This paper offers an account of the semantics of count nous. I show that neither the atomic/nonatomic distinction nor the homogeneous/non-homogeneous distinction is sufficient to ...
Susan Rothstein
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
There Is Something about Might
In this paper we present an alternative interpretation of statements of epistemic possibility, which does not induce a consistency test on a common ground, as in (Veltman 1996), bu...
Paul Dekker
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions
The paper provides a compositional account of cumulative readings with non-increasing modified numerals (aka van Benthem's puzzle), e.g., Exactly three boys saw exactly five m...
Adrian Brasoveanu