Quantifiers, deduction, and context / edited by Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher J. Piñón & Henriëtte de Swart.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:CSLI lecture notes ; no. 57.
Corporate Author: CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation
Other Authors: Kanazawa, Makoto, 1964-
Piñón, Christopher J., 1963-
Swart, Henriëtte de, 1961-
Language:English
Published: Standford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [1996], ©1996.
Series:CSLI lecture notes ; no. 57.
Subjects:
Language and logic > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers > Congresses.
Semantics > Congresses.
Context (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:x, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • The context-dependency of implicit arguments / Cleo Condoravdi and Jean Mark Gawron
  • A deductive account of quantification in LFG / Mary Dalrymple ... [et al.]
  • The sorites fallacy and the context-dependence of vague predicates / Kees van Deemter
  • Presuppositions and information updating / Jan van Eijck
  • Indefeasible semantics and defeasible pragmatics / Megumi Kameyama
  • Resumptive quantifiers in exception sentences / Friederike Moltmann
  • (In)definites and genericity / Henriëtte de Swart.