Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context

by Makoto Kanazawa (Editor), Christopher Pinon (Editor), Henriette de Swart (Editor)

Overview

The second Workshop on Logic, Language and Computation at Stanford, Spring 1993 brought together researchers interested in natural language to discuss the current state of the art at the borderline of logic, linguistics and computer science. This volume is an outgrowth of that workshop.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575860046
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	03/28/1996
Series:	Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Series , #57
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Context-Dependency of Implicit Arguments; 2. A Deductive Account of Quantification in LFG; 3. The Sorites Fallacy and the Context-dependence of Vague Predicates; 4. Presuppositions and Information Updating; 5. Indefeasible semantics and Defeasible Pragmatics; 6. Pronoun Interpretation Preferences: an Account; 7. Resumptive Quantifiers in Exception Sentences; 8. (In)definites and genericity.