2015: Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium

Conference Proceedings

• Learning in the Rational Speech Acts Model

  Will Monroe, Christopher Potts (Author)

  1-12

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• Splitting hairs

  Chung-chieh Shan (Author)

  363-367

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• I Believe I Can ϕ

  Matthew Aaron Mandelkern, Ginger Schulteis, David Boylan (Author)

  256-265

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• The imperfective in subjunctive conditionals: fake or real aspect?

  Fabienne Martin (Author)

  266-275

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• Accommodation and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis

  Clemens Mayr, Uli Sauerland (Author)

  276-285

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• Particle responses to negated assertions: Preference patterns for German ja and nein

  A. Marlijn Meijer, Berry Claus, Sophie Repp, Manfred Krifka (Author)

  286-295

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• A Predicativist Semantics of Modals based on Modal Objects

  Friederike Moltmann (Author)

  296-302

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• His name is Socrates because that’s what he’s called: A model-theoretic account of name-bearing

  Patrick Munoz (Author)

  303-312

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• Resolving Quantity- and Informativeness-Implicature in Indefinite Reference

  Till Poppels, Roger Levy (Author)

  313-322

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• On Reporting Attitudes: an Analysis of Desire Reports and their Reading-Establishing Scenarios

  Tillmann Pross (Author)

  323-332

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• Towards a Taxonomy of Textual Entailments

  Adam Przepiórkowski, Jakub Kozakoszczak, Jan Winkowski, Daniel Ziembicki, Tadeusz Teleżyński (Author)

  333-342

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• Three types of indefinites: evidence from Ga (Kwa)

  Agata Renans (Author)

  343-352

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• Conditional plans and imperatives: A semantics and pragmatics for imperative mood

  Craige Roberts (Author)

  353-362

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• Three puzzles about negation in non-canonical speech reports

  Emar Maier, Corien Bary (Author)

  246-255

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• Alternative Representations in Formal Semantics: A case study of quantifiers

  Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke, Jakub Szymanik (Author)

  368-377

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• The role of preferred outcomes in determining implicit questioning strategies

  Jon Scott Stevens (Author)

  378-387

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• On the focus-sensitivity of counterfactuality

  Jos L. Tellings (Author)

  388-397

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• Locating Hidden Quantifiers in De Re Reports

  Daniel Tiskin (Author)

  398-407

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• An Interactive Approach to Proof-Theoretic Semantics

  James Trafford (Author)

  408-417

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• Discourse Structure and Syntactic Embedding: The German Discourse Particle ja

  Yvonne Viesel (Author)

  418-427

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• Simplifying Counterfactual

  Malte Willer (Author)

  428-437

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• Mention-some readings of questions: Complexities from number marking

  Yimei Xiang (Author)

  438-447

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• Existential presupposition projection from none? An experimental investigation

  Jérémy Zehr, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz (Author)

  448-457

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• NEG-raising does not involve syntactic reconstruction

  Hedde Zeijlstra (Author)

  458-467

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• Toward Probabilistic Natural Logic for Syllogistic Reasoning

  Fangzhou Zhai, Jakub Szymanik, Ivan Titov (Author)

  468-477

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• Comparatives Revisited: Downward-Entailing Differentials Do Not Threaten Encapsulation Theories

  Linmin Zhang, Jia Ling (Author)

  478-487

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• Quantification and Existence in Natural and Formal Languages

  Suki Finn (Author)

  119-127

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• Some New Thoughts on Conditionals

  Graham Priest (Author)

  13-19

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• The conservativity of many

  Maribel Romero (Author)

  20-29

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• Counterpossibles

  Timothy Williamson (Author)

  30-39

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• A Pure Logic-Based Approach to Natural Reasoning

  Lasha Abzianidze (Author)

  40-49

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• Novelty and Familiarity for Free

  David Beaver, Elizabeth Coppock (Author)

  50-59

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• Totally tall sounds totally younger. From meaning composition to social perception.

  Andrea Beltrama (Author)

  60-69

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• Scope interactions between modals and modified numerals

  Dominique Blok (Author)

  70-79

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• Selection Function Semantics for Will

  Fabrizio Cariani, Paolo Santorio (Author)

  80-89

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• Divine foreknowledge, time and tense

  Pablo Colbreros (Author)

  90-99

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• Knowledge, Justification and Reason-Based Belief

  Paul Egré, Paul Marty, Bryan Renne (Author)

  100-108

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• Negation and events as truthmakers

  Tim Fernando (Author)

  109-118

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• An Inquisitive Semantics Analysis for the Chinese Polar Question Particle Ma

  Shih-Yueh Lin (Author)

  237-245

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• Prover-Skeptic Games and Logical Pluralism

  Rohan French (Author)

  128-136

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• Understanding Laughter

  Jonathan Ginzburg, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Julian Hough, Ye Tian (Author)

  137-146

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• Even, Comparative Likelihood and Gradability

  Yael Greenberg (Author)

  147-156

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• An argument for vagueness with holes

  Timothy W. Grinsell (Author)

  157-166

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• Culminations and presuppositions

  Zsófia Gyarmathy (Author)

  167-176

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• Alternatives in Cantonese: Disjunctions, Questions and (Un)conditionals

  Yurie Hara (Author)

  177-186

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• Right node raising, scope, and plurality

  Aron Hirsch, Michael Wagner (Author)

  187-196

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• Portion Readings are Count Readings, not Measure Readings

  Keren Khrizman, Fred Landman, Suzi Lima, Susan Rothstein, Brigitta R. Schvarcz (Author)

  197-206

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• Homogeneity, Trivalence, and Embedded Questions

  Manuel Križ (Author)

  207-216

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• Performative uses and the temporal interpretation of modals

  Sven Lauer (Author)

  217-226

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• Definiteness: from L1 Mandarin to Mandarin L2 English

  Bert Le Bruyn, Xiaoli Dong (Author)

  227-236

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