Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6042

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1 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6042 Edited by R. Goebel, J. Siekmann, and W. Wahlster Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information Editors-in-Chief Luigia Carlucci Aiello, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Michael Moortgat, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Editorial Board Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine, France Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Luis Fariñas, IRIT, Toulouse, France Claire Gardent, INRIA Lorraine, France Rajeev Goré, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Reiner Hähnle, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Christopher Manning, Stanford University, CA, USA Valeria de Paiva, Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy James Rogers, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA Francesca Rossi, University of Padua, Italy Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand

2 Maria Aloni Harald Bastiaanse Tikitu de Jager Katrin Schulz (Eds.) Logic, Language and Meaning 17th Amsterdam Colloquium Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 16-18, 2009 Revised Selected Papers 13

3 Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Maria Aloni Harald Bastiaanse Tikitu de Jager Katrin Schulz University of Amsterdam Department of Philosophy (ILLC) Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands {m.d.aloni, h.a.bastiaanse, Library of Congress Control Number: CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.7, F.4.2, F.4.1, F.3, I.2, F.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. springer.com Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper 06/3180

4 Preface The 2009 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium was the 17th in a series which started in The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. Originally an initiative of the Department of Philosophy, the colloquium is now organized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (illc) ofthe University of Amsterdam. These proceedings contain revised extended abstracts of most of the articles presented at the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. The first section contains extended abstracts of the talks given by the invited speakers of the general program. The second, third and fourth sections contain invited and submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops that were hosted by the colloquium: the workshop on Implicature and Grammar organized by Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz; the workshop on Natural Logic organized by Jan van Eijck; and the workshop on Vagueness, organized by Robert van Rooij and Frank Veltman. The final section consists of the submitted contributions to the general program. For the organization of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium financial support was received from: the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (knaw); the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (illc); the nwo-funded project Indefinites and Beyond: Evolutionary pragmatics and typological semantics (coordinator: Maria Aloni); the nwo-funded project Vagueness and how to be precise enough (coordinators: Robert van Rooij and Frank Veltman); and the Municipality of Amsterdam. This support is gratefully acknowledged. The editors would like to thank the members of the Program Committee and the anonymous reviewers for their help in the preparation of this volume. Many thanks also to Paul Dekker, Fengkui Ju, Peter van Ormondt, Angelika Port, Floris Roelofsen, Margaux Smets, Joel Uckelman, and Lucian Zagan, for help with the organization of the conference. February 2010 Maria Aloni Harald Bastiaanse Tikitu de Jager Katrin Schulz

5 Organization Program Committee Chair Frank Veltman Local Committee Johan van Benthem Robert van Rooij External Committee Henriëtte de Swart Ede Zimmermann Invited Speakers Irene Heim Petra Hendriks Gerhard Jäger Fred Landman Larry Moss Chris Potts Maribel Romero Roger Schwarzschild Zoltán Szabó OTS, Utrecht University, Netherlands Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany MIT Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands University of Tübingen, Germany Tel Aviv University, Israel Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Stanford University, CA, USA University of Konstanz, Germany Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Workshop on Implicature and Grammar Reinhard Blutner Angelika Port Chris Potts Stanford University, CA, USA Katrin Schulz (Chair) Henk Zeevat Workshop on Natural Logic Jan van Eijck CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Workshop on Vagueness Robert van Rooij Frank Veltman

6 Table of Contents Invited Speakers Empirical Evidence for Embodied Semantics... 1 Petra Hendriks Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets Gerhard Jäger Concealed Questions with Quantifiers Maribel Romero Specific, Yet Opaque Zoltán Gendler Szabó Workshop on Implicature and Grammar Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor Christopher Davis and Christopher Potts Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures Emmanuel Chemla and Benjamin Spector Local and Global Implicatures in Wh-Question Disjunctions Andreas Haida and Sophie Repp Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope Philippe Schlenker Workshop on Natural Logic Natural Logic and Semantics Lawrence S. Moss NL from Logic: Connecting Entailment and Generation Crit Cremers An Analytic Tableau System for Natural Logic Reinhard Muskens The Data Complexity of the Syllogistic Fragments of English Camilo Thorne and Diego Calvanese Extending Syllogistic Reasoning Robert van Rooij

7 VIII Table of Contents Workshop on Vagueness Internal and Interval Semantics for CP-Comparatives Fred Landman Temporal Propositions as Vague Predicates Tim Fernando Vagueness Is Rational under Uncertainty Joey Frazee and David Beaver Restricted Quantification over Tastes Galit W. Sassoon Vagueness Facilitates Search Kees van Deemter General Program Meaning of Now and Other Temporal Location Adverbs Daniel Altshuler Logical Consequence Inside Out Denis Bonnay and Dag Westerståhl Modified Numerals as Post-Suppositions Adrian Brasoveanu Cumulative Readings of Every Do Not Provide Evidence for Events and Thematic Roles Lucas Champollion Restricting and Embedding Imperatives Nate Charlow A First-Order Inquisitive Semantics Ivano Ciardelli There Is Something about Might Paul J.E. Dekker Incommensurability Jenny Doetjes Distributivity in Reciprocal Sentences Jakub Dotlačil A Logic for Easy Linking Semantics Regine Eckardt

8 Table of Contents IX Rivalry between French age and ée: The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization Karen Ferret, Elena Soare, and Florence Villoing Free Choice from Iterated Best Response Michael Franke A Formal Semantics for Iconic Spatial Gestures Gianluca Giorgolo On the Scopal Interaction of Negation and Deontic Modals Sabine Iatridou and Hedde Zeijlstra Projective Meaning and Attachment Jacques Jayez Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement Mingya Liu Two Puzzles about Requirements Rick Nouwen Two Sources of Again-Ambiguities: Evidence from Degree-Achievement Predicates Walter Pedersen Equatives, Measure Phrases and NPIs Jessica Rett Squiggly Issues: Alternative Sets, Complex DPs, and Intensionality Arndt Riester and Hans Kamp Disjunctive Questions, Intonation, and Highlighting Floris Roelofsen and Sam van Gool The Semantics of Count Nouns Susan Rothstein Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-Type vs. Dynamic Accounts Philippe Schlenker Modality and Speech Acts: Troubled by German Ruhig Magdalena Schwager German Noch So: Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity Item Bernhard Schwarz Some New Observations on Because (of) Torgrim Solstad

9 X Table of Contents Much Support and More Stephanie Solt Quantifiers and Working Memory Jakub Szymanik and Marcin Zajenkowski Pluractionality and the Unity of the Event Lucia M. Tovena Author Index