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Monotonicity in Logic and Language

Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning, TLLM 2020, Beijing, China, December 17-20, 2020, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Dun Deng

    1. Department of Chinese Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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  2. Fenrong Liu

    1. Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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  3. Mingming Liu

    1. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Bejing, China

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  4. Dag Westerståhl

    1. Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12564)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. New Logical Perspectives on Monotonicity

    • Johan van Benthem, Fenrong Liu
    Pages 1-12

  3. Universal Free Choice from Concessive Copular Conditionals in Tibetan

    • Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
    Pages 13-34Open Access

  4. Monotonicity in Syntax

    • Thomas Graf
    Pages 35-53

  5. Attributive Measure Phrases in Mandarin: Monotonicity and Distributivity

    • Xuping Li
    Pages 54-80

  6. Universal Quantification in Mandarin

    • Mingming Liu
    Pages 81-106

  7. Monotonicity in Intuitionistic Minimal Change Semantics Given Gärdenfors’ Triviality Result

    • Xinghan Liu
    Pages 107-124

  8. Are Causes Ever Too Strong? Downward Monotonicity in the Causal Domain

    • Dean McHugh
    Pages 125-146

  9. Morphosyntactic Patterns Follow Monotonic Mappings

    • Sedigheh Moradi
    Pages 147-165

  10. Negative Polarity Additive Particles

    • Andreea C. Nicolae
    Pages 166-182

  11. A Causal Analysis of Modal Syllogisms

    • Robert van Rooij, Kaibo Xie
    Pages 183-206

  12. Bipartite Exhaustification: Evidence from Vietnamese

    • Tue Trinh
    Pages 207-216

  13. Comparatives Bring a Degree-Based NPI Licenser

    • Linmin Zhang
    Pages 217-238

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 239-239
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Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2020, held in Tsinghua, China, in December 2020. The 12 full papers together presented were fully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.
Due to COVID-19 the workshop will be held online.
The workshop covers a wide range of topics where monotonicity is discussed in the context of logic, causality, belief revision, quantification, polarity, syntax, comparatives, and various semantic phenomena in particular languages.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chinese Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Dun Deng

  • Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Fenrong Liu

  • Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Bejing, China

    Mingming Liu

  • Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Dag Westerståhl

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