AMSTERDAM
2009
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2009
This paper exposes shortcomings of an analysis to single-event plural verbs (Cusic’s event-internal pluractionals) based on temporal discontinuity. It shows how to ground discont...
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
In this paper I describe a formal semantics for iconic spatial gestures. My claim is that the meaning of iconic gestures can be captured with an appropriate mathematical theory of ...
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
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...
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
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
13 years 9 months ago
2009
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
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
13 years 9 months ago
2009
The paper presents a study examining the role of working memory in quantifier verification. We created situations similar to the span task to compare numerical quantifiers of low a...
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
AMSTERDAM
2009
13 years 9 months ago
2009
The paper presents a statistical evaluation of the typological data about color naming systems across the languages of the world that have been obtained by the World Color Survey....