Logic, Language and Meaning

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Speakers

   1. Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL

      • Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton

      Pages 1-11

   2. Context Probabilism

      • Seth Yalcin

      Pages 12-21

3. Workshop on Inquisitiveness

   1. Free Choice in Deontic Inquisitive Semantics (DIS)

      • Martin Aher

      Pages 22-31

   2. Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation

      • Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg

      Pages 32-41

   3. Where Question, Conditionals and Topics Converge

      • Edgar Onea, Markus Steinbach

      Pages 42-51

   4. Inquisitive Knowledge Attribution and the Gettier Problem

      • Wataru Uegaki

      Pages 52-61

4. Workshop on Sign Language

   1. When Wide Scope Is Not Enough: Scope and Topicality of Discourse Referents

      • Gemma Barberà

      Pages 62-71

   2. When Disjunction Looks Like Conjunction: Pragmatic Consequences in ASL

      • Kathryn Davidson

      Pages 72-81

   3. Quantificational Strategies across Language Modalities

      • Josep Quer

      Pages 82-91

   4. Degree Modification and Intensification in American Sign Language Adjectives

      • Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evie Malaia, Robin A. Shay

      Pages 92-101

5. Workshop on Formal Semantic Evidence

   1. Experimenting with the King of France

      • Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendröi

      Pages 102-111

   2. Adjectives as Saturators vs. Modifiers: Statistical Evidence

      • Gemma Boleda, Stefan Evert, Berit Gehrke, Louise McNally

      Pages 112-121

   3. Licensing Sentence-Internal Readings in English

      • Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil

      Pages 122-132

   4. Evaluative Adjectives, Scale Structure, and Ways of Being Polite

      • Lisa Bylinina, Stas Zadorozhny

      Pages 133-142

   5. Processing: Free Choice at No Cost

      • Emmanuel Chemla, Lewis Bott

      Pages 143-149

   6. Corpus Evidence for Preference-Driven Interpretation

      • Alex Djalali, Sven Lauer, Christopher Potts

      Pages 150-159

   7. Relating ERP-Effects to Theories of Belief Update and Combining Systems

      • Ralf Naumann

      Pages 160-169

   8. Can Children Tell Us Something about the Semantics of Adjectives?

      • Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo

      Pages 170-179

   9. Underspecified Representations of Scope Ambiguity?

      • Janina Radó, Oliver Bott

      Pages 180-189

This book contains the revised papers presented at the 8th Amsterdam Colloquium 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in December 2011. The 46 thoroughly refereed and revised contributions out of 137 submissions presented together with 2 invited talks are organized in five sections. The first section contains the invited contributions. The second, third and fourth sections incorporate submitted contributions to the three thematic workshops that were hosted by the Colloquium and addressed the following topics: inquisitiveness; formal semantics and pragmatics of sign languages, formal semantic evidence. The final section presents the submitted contributions to the general program.

• ambiguity
• american sign language (ASL)
• context
• discourse structure
• natural language semantics

• ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Galit W. Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Matthijs Westera

• ACLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Vadim Kimmelman

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