Maria Aloni (auth.), Balder D. ten Cate, Henk W. Zeevat (eds.)3540751432, 9783540751434
Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the second volume of the FoLLI LNAI subline. It represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2005, held in Batumi, Georgia, in September 2005.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous presentations at the symposium. The papers present current research in all aspects of linguistics, logic and computation and address the following topics in detail: modal logic, linguistics and typology, formal pragmatics, linguistics and formal pragmatics, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic, typology, semantics and pragmatics, linguistics, semantics and learnability, information and artificial intelligence, formal pragmatics and typology, linguistics, semantics and typology, as well as logic and linguistics.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Expressing Ignorance or Indifference….Pages 1-20
The Main Devices of Foregrounding in the Information Structure of Georgian Sentences….Pages 21-30
Focus and ‘Only’ in Hungarian….Pages 31-44
Duals of Simple and Subdirectly Irreducible Distributive Modal Algebras….Pages 45-57
Productivity, Polysemy, and Predicate Indexicality….Pages 58-71
Argument Dependencies in Tukang Besi….Pages 72-84
The Marking of Verb-Actant Relations in Georgian….Pages 85-95
Uniform Interpolation, Bisimulation Quantifiers, and Fixed Points….Pages 96-116
The Problem of Learning the Semantics of Quantifiers….Pages 117-126
Towards a Cross-Linguistic Production Data Archive: Structure and Exploration….Pages 127-138
Case Attraction in Ancient Greek….Pages 139-153
Real World Multi-agent Systems: Information Sharing, Coordination and Planning….Pages 154-165
Pros and Cons of a Type-Shifting Approach to Russian Genitive of Negation….Pages 166-188
A Whether Forecast….Pages 189-199
Participants in Action: The Interplay of Aspectual Meanings and Thematic Relations in the Semantics of Semitic Morphology….Pages 200-215
Natural Logic for Natural Language….Pages 216-230
Georgian as the Testing-Ground for Theories of Tense and Aspect….Pages 231-246
Some Criteria of Decidability for Axiomatic Systems in Three-Valued Logic….Pages 247-259
Doubling: The Semantic Driving Force Behind Functional Categories….Pages 260-280
Back Matter….Pages –
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