Quantifiers, deduction, and context
By: edited by Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher J. Piñón & Henriëtte de Swart.
Contributors: Kanazawa, Makoto, 1964-; Piñón, Christopher J., 1963-; Swart, Henriëtte de, 1961-; CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation (2nd : 1993)
Series: CSLI lecture notes ;; no. 57
Publisher: CSLI Publications
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Standford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Language and logic -- Congresses.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers -- Congresses.; Semantics -- Congresses.; Context (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The present volume is an outgrowth of, but by no means faithfully represents, the second CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation ... held at the Center for the Study of Language and Information ... on June 4-6, 1993"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The context-dependency of implicit arguments / Cleo Condoravdi and Jean Mark Gawron; title: A deductive account of quantification in LFG / Mary Dalrymple ... [et al.]; title: The sorites fallacy and the context-dependence of vague predicates / Kees van Deemter; title: Presuppositions and information updating / Jan van Eijck; title: Indefeasible semantics and defeasible pragmatics / Megumi Kameyama; title: Resumptive quantifiers in exception sentences / Friederike Moltmann; title: (In)definites and genericity / Henriëtte de Swart.