Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium December 19 - 21, 2005

ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2005. — 260 p.The 2005 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the colloquium. A second time and again__Sigrid Beck__Proof-theoretic semantics for a syllogistic fragment__Gilad Ben Avi and Nissim Francez__**Workshop on Language and Learning** Locality and the order of acquisition steps__Jacqueline van Kampen__**Workshop on Semantic Universals** Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are unlike Dutch__Johan van der Auwera__ Association: a cross-linguistic experiment__David Gil__Case and strength__Helen de Hoop__ How much logic is built into natural language?__Ed Keenan__**General Program** Focus and negative concord in Hungarian__Agnes Bende-Farkas__ Dynamic situations: accounting for Dowty’s inertia notion using dynamic semantics__Ido Ben-Zvi__ Exhaustivity, homogeneity and definiteness__Richard Breheny__Complex anaphors—ontology and resolution__Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees__ Comic relief for anankastic conditionals__Tim Fernando__Achieving expressive completeness and computational efficiency for underspecified scope representations__Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin__ How and how not to employ discourse relations to account for pseudo-imperatives__Michael Franke__ Agency and case: a lattice-based framework__Scott Grimm__ Dynamic Wh-terms__Andreas Haida__ Contrastives and Gricean principle__Yurie Hara__ Inference, ellipsis and deaccenting__Daniel Hardt__Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar__Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop and Monique Lamers__ A presuppositional account of indexicals__Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher__Independence friendly logic as a strategic game__Theo M.V. Janssen__When ‘widening’ is too narrow__Jacques Jayez and Lucia Tovena__Scalar use of Only in conditionals__Sveta Krasikova and Ventsislav Zhechev__Donald Duck is back, and he speaks Spanish__Luisa Mart ́__A compositional semantics for locatives__C ́ecile Meier__ Comparatives without degrees: a new approach__Friederike Moltmann__ Synonymy, common knowledge, and the social construction of meaning__Reinhard Muskens__ Monotone amazement__Rick Nouwen__ Polarity items in before clauses__Francesca Panzeri__Almost : a test?__Doris Penka__ Semantics of possessive determiners__Stanley Peters and Dag Westerstahl__ Determiners in aspectual composition__Christopher Pinon__Scope disambiguation by ellipsis and focus without scope economy__Mats Rooth__ The helping-effect of dative case__Antonia Rothmayr__Against partitioned readings of reciprocals__Sivan Sabato and Yoad Winter__Syntax and semantics of causal denn in German__Tatjana Scheffler__ The role of lists in a categorial analysis of coordination__Michael Schiehlen__ Transparency: an incremental account of presupposition projection__Philippe Schlenker__ Exhaustive imperatives__Magdalena Schwager__ Word meaning, unification and sentence-internal pragmatics__Torgrim Solstad__Causative constructions and aspectual meanings: a case study from Semitic derivational morphology__Reut Tsarfaty__ ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2005. — 260 p. The 2005 edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the colloquium. A second time and again Sigrid Beck Proof-theoretic semantics for a syllogistic fragment Gilad Ben Avi and Nissim Francez Workshop on Language and Learning Locality and the order of acquisition steps Jacqueline van Kampen Workshop on Semantic Universals Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are unlike Dutch Johan van der Auwera Association: a cross-linguistic experiment David Gil Case and strength Helen de Hoop How much logic is built into natural language? Ed Keenan General Program Focus and negative concord in Hungarian Agnes Bende-Farkas Dynamic situations: accounting for Dowty’s inertia notion using dynamic semantics Ido Ben-Zvi Exhaustivity, homogeneity and definiteness Richard Breheny Complex anaphors—ontology and resolution Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees Comic relief for anankastic conditionals Tim Fernando Achieving expressive completeness and computational efficiency for underspecified scope representations Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin How and how not to employ discourse relations to account for pseudo-imperatives Michael Franke Agency and case: a lattice-based framework Scott Grimm Dynamic Wh-terms Andreas Haida Contrastives and Gricean principle Yurie Hara Inference, ellipsis and deaccenting Daniel Hardt Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop and Monique Lamers A presuppositional account of indexicals Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher Independence friendly logic as a strategic game Theo M.V. Janssen When ‘widening’ is too narrow Jacques Jayez and Lucia Tovena Scalar use of Only in conditionals Sveta Krasikova and Ventsislav Zhechev Donald Duck is back, and he speaks Spanish Luisa Mart ́ A compositional semantics for locatives C ́ecile Meier Comparatives without degrees: a new approach Friederike Moltmann Synonymy, common knowledge, and the social construction of meaning Reinhard Muskens Monotone amazement Rick Nouwen Polarity items in before clauses Francesca Panzeri Almost : a test? Doris Penka Semantics of possessive determiners Stanley Peters and Dag Westerstahl Determiners in aspectual composition Christopher Pinon Scope disambiguation by ellipsis and focus without scope economy Mats Rooth The helping-effect of dative case Antonia Rothmayr Against partitioned readings of reciprocals Sivan Sabato and Yoad Winter Syntax and semantics of causal denn in German Tatjana Scheffler The role of lists in a categorial analysis of coordination Michael Schiehlen Transparency: an incremental account of presupposition projection Philippe Schlenker Exhaustive imperatives Magdalena Schwager Word meaning, unification and sentence-internal pragmatics Torgrim Solstad Causative constructions and aspectual meanings: a case study from Semitic derivational morphology Reut Tsarfaty