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Logic, Language and Meaning

17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6042)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Speakers

    1. Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics

      • Petra Hendriks
      Pages 1-10
    2. Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets

      • Gerhard Jäger
      Pages 11-20
    3. Concealed Questions with Quantifiers

      • Maribel Romero
      Pages 21-31
    4. Specific, Yet Opaque

      • Zoltán Gendler Szabó
      Pages 32-41
  3. Workshop on Implicature and Grammar

    1. Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor

      • Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts
      Pages 42-52
    2. Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures

      • Emmanuel Chemla, Benjamin Spector
      Pages 53-62
    3. Local and Global Implicatures in Wh-Question Disjunctions

      • Andreas Haida, Sophie Repp
      Pages 63-73
  4. Workshop on Natural Logic

    1. Natural Logic and Semantics

      • Lawrence S. Moss
      Pages 84-93
    2. An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic

      • Reinhard Muskens
      Pages 104-113
    3. The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English

      • Camilo Thorne, Diego Calvanese
      Pages 114-123
    4. Extending Syllogistic Reasoning

      • Robert van Rooij
      Pages 124-132
  5. Workshop on Vagueness

    1. Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates

      • Tim Fernando
      Pages 143-152
    2. Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty

      • Joey Frazee, David Beaver
      Pages 153-162
    3. Restricted Quantification over Tastes

      • Galit W. Sassoon
      Pages 163-172
    4. Vagueness Facilitates Search

      • Kees van Deemter
      Pages 173-182
  6. General Program

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu Jager, Katrin Schulz

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