Because (of) is ambiguous between a `reason' and a `plain cause' interpretation. Presenting a semantic analysis within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, I...
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...
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...
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...
This paper addresses the question why language is vague. A novel answer to this question is proposed, which complements other answers suggested in the literature. It claims that va...
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 ...
teness of the knowledge bases, our approach also obtains facts through automated extraction from Medline abstracts. An essential component of our approach is to apply logical reaso...