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View article: Disambiguating quantity judgements: mass/count and extra-grammatical cues
Disambiguating quantity judgements: mass/count and extra-grammatical cues Open
Comparative quantity judgements are a useful probe into the semantics of the mass/count distinction, where count nouns usually trigger cardinal comparisons (more dogs), and mass nouns trigger non-cardinal measurement (more rice). However, …
View article: SpaceNLI: Evaluating the Consistency of Predicting Inferences in Space
SpaceNLI: Evaluating the Consistency of Predicting Inferences in Space Open
While many natural language inference (NLI) datasets target certain semantic phenomena, e.g., negation, tense & aspect, monotonicity, and presupposition, to the best of our knowledge, there is no NLI dataset that involves diverse types of …
View article: Generating image captions with external encyclopedic knowledge
Generating image captions with external encyclopedic knowledge Open
Accurately reporting what objects are depicted in an image is largely a solved problem in automatic caption generation. The next big challenge on the way to truly humanlike captioning is being able to incorporate the context of the image a…
View article: Editorial: Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music
Editorial: Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Commun., 25 February 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.838286
View article: On Partee’s “Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles”
On Partee’s “Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles” Open
Montague’s classic article “The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English” (PTQ, 1973) treated all NP occurrences as quantificational. Partee’s article “Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles” (1987) reconcile…
View article: Karttunen logic for presupposition projection
Karttunen logic for presupposition projection Open
Presuppositions of complex sentences are empirically distinguished from the propositional contexts that render a sentence coherent. This distinction is at the heart of the proviso problem for presupposition projection. Here we show that Ka…
View article: Reciprocal predicates: a prototype model
Reciprocal predicates: a prototype model Open
Many languages have verbal stems like hug and marry whose intransitive realization is interpreted as reciprocal. Previous semantic analyses of such reciprocal intransitives rely on the assumption of symmetric participation. Thus, 'Sam and …
View article: Geo-Aware Image Caption Generation
Geo-Aware Image Caption Generation Open
Standard image caption generation systems produce generic descriptions of images and do not utilize any contextual information or world knowledge. In particular, they are unable to generate captions that contain references to the geographi…
View article: On Presupposition Projection with Trivalent Connectives
On Presupposition Projection with Trivalent Connectives Open
A basic puzzle about presuppositions concerns their projection from propositional constructions. This problem has regained much attention in the last decade since many of its prominent accounts, including variants of the trivalent Strong K…
View article: Bare Predicate Nominals in Dutch
Bare Predicate Nominals in Dutch Open
Bare predicate nominals (BPNs) have interesting syntactic and semantic properties that set them aside from full nominals in predicative constructions. In Dutch the differences between BPNs and other nominals are especially visible in the s…
View article: A modular approach to intensionality
A modular approach to intensionality Open
This paper introduces a procedure that takes a simple version of extensional semantics and generates from it an equivalent possible-world semantics that is suitable for treating intensional phenomena in natural language. This process of in…
View article: Presupposition Projection and Repair Strategies in Trivalent Semantics
Presupposition Projection and Repair Strategies in Trivalent Semantics Open
In binary propositional constructions S1 con S2, the Strong Kleene connectives explain filtering of S1’s and S2’s presuppositions depending on their logical relations with their non-presuppositional content. However, the presuppositions de…
View article: Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations
Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations Open
Reciprocal alternations appear with binary predicates that also have a collective unary form. Many of these binary predicates are symmetric: if A dated B then B dated A. Most symmetric predicates in English show a simple kind of reciprocit…
View article: Reciprocal expressions and the Maximal Typicality Hypothesis
Reciprocal expressions and the Maximal Typicality Hypothesis Open
In two experiments, we study the effects of verb concepts on the interpretation of reciprocal expressions in Dutch and Hebrew. One experiment studies Hebrew to test a previous account, the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis, which suggests that …
View article: Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction
Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction Open
Previous developmental studies of conjunction have focused on the syntax of phrasal and sentential coordination (Lust, 1977; de Villiers, Tager-Flusberg & Hakuta, 1977; Bloom, Lahey, Hood, Lifter & Fiess, 1980, among others). The present s…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing the problem of concept composition, which is one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. An introduc…
View article: Notations
Notations Open
blik τ arbitrary denotation of a word blik, of type τ BLIK τ