Proceedings

The Proceedings of the 24rd Amsterdam Colloquium are available here. Please find a list of the individual papers below.

 

Beth Lecture

Angelika Kratzer: Possible worlds in a polyphony of meanings

 

Invited Speakers

Ivano Ciardelli: Questions and their subject matters

Liz Coppock: Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics

Veneeta Dayal: Overtly Marked Mention-All Questions

Salvatore Florio: Singularism, Pluralism, and Definitional Equivalence

Wataru Uegaki: Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning.

Eleonore Neufeld: Giving Generic Language Another Thought.

 

General Programme

Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Kurt Erbach, Richard Breheny, Clemens Mayr, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo: Non-maximality effects in gestural plural predication

Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Bernhard Schwarz: To compose a number is to compose a cardinality: evidence from intensional contexts

Marta Abrusan: Non-factive 'know': What does it mean?

Pranav Anand, Natasha Korotkova: Facts, intentions, questions: English “come-to-know” predicates in deliberative environments 

Ido Benbaji-Elhadad, Omri Doron: How is presupposition accommodation constrained, again?

Fenna Berger, Matthijs Westera: Evaluating Unalternative Semantics on a large corpus of naturalistic speech

Maumita Bhaumik: Children’s derivation of scalar inference from or-sentences: Evidence from varying the degree of relevance.

Justin Bledin: Free Choice With Arbitrary Variables

David Boylan: How Conditionals Restrict

David Boylan, Ginger Schultheis: Actuality Entailments and the Conditional Analysis

Tatiana Bondarenko, Richard Luo, Vincent Rouillard: Thinking Statively and Dynamically: a view from Georgian

Lisa Bylinina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Yasutada Sudo: Priming NPI Acceptability Judgments and The Bagel Problem

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bilbiie, Lyn Tieu: More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian 

Fabrizio Cariani: Default Premise Semantics for Anankastic Conditionals.

Zhuang Chen: Evaluativity in even-hosting comparatives: Information structure and salient scales

Alexandre Cremers: Vagueness and pragmatic reasoning in quantified sentences

Ludovica Conti: Arbitrariness and Frege Arithmetic

John Duff, Daniel Altshuler: Reanalysis in discourse comprehension: Evidence from reading times

Patrick Elliott, Filipe Hisao Kobayashi: Ignorance under attitudes

Kurt Erbach, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Richard Breheny, Clemens Mayr, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo: Putting summative predicates into context

Anamaria Falaus, Andreea Nicolae: Ignorance and attenuation

Valeria Gradimondo, Lucia M. Tovena, Timothée Bernard: Crossing different ontological domains: the case of "appena"

Yael Greenberg, Hedde Zeijlstra: What is special about special?

Adèle Hénot-Mortier: Scalarity, information structure and relevance in varieties of Hurford Conditionals

Elena Herburger, Paul Portner: Additive Presuppositions and Logical Strength

Angelica Hill: The Case for an Anchored CAUSE

Hitomi Hirayama: A Pragma-Semantic Account for Negative Island Obviation by Wa in Japanese

Yaqing Hu: Same Type of Comparatives, But with Different Syntax and Semantics

Paloma Jeretic, Aurore Gonzalez, Itai Bassi, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland: DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives

Andrej Jovićević: A Semantics for Weak, Question-Sensitive Belief

Alexandros Kalomoiros, Matthew Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz: Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don't

Boram Kim: Measuring event participants

Alexander W. Kocurek: Counterpossibles, Functional Decision Theory, and Artificial Agents

Manfred Krifka: Hurford’s Constraint and Disjunctions over Speech Acts

Andrew Kato: Relative quantification and equative scope-taking

Jakob Majdič: Circumstantial indirectness: Future orientation of modals revised

Lera Marinina: Northern Khanty demonstratives: a markedness-based approach

Andrea Matticchio: Neg-raising interacts with implicatures: The case of doubt

Calum McNamara, Xeuyin (Snow) Zhang: Dutch Books, Indicative Conditionals, and Rational Updating

Teruyuki Mizuno: A localist approach to the semantics and distribution of X-marking

Julien Murzi, Brett Topey: What Is Carnap's Problem and How Can We Solve It?

Irina Nemtcova, Jakub Szymanik: Explaining universal semantic properties in the adjectival/adverbial domain

Andreea Nicolae, Yasutada Sudo, Muyi Yang: On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya

Sreekar Raghotham: Loose nominals

Tom Ralston: Generic Explanations for Generics

Valentin D. Richard: Dynamic Effects of Modalized Questions

Tom Roberts: Just-asking questions

Fabian Schlotterbeck, Polina Berezovskaya, Sigrid Beck: Age stratification in collective readings of Present Day English 'every'-DPs 

Eli Sharf: What appositives can tell us about names and definite descriptions

Chun-Hung Shih: Generic Modals in Mandarin

Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, Maria Teresa Guasti: The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study

Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott: Causal abductive reasoning in discourse processing: Evidence from eye tracking

Andres Soria-Ruiz: Expressive inferences & mighty obstacles

Peter R Sutton, Hana Filip: Making a statement: eventuality denoting nominals

Maik Thalmann, Andrea Matticchio: On being certain that presuppositions don’t project universally

Jad Wehbe, Kate Kinnaird, Martin Hackl: Distributivity facilitates ACD resolution

Simon Wimmer: Believe is not a propositional attitude verb

Hongchen Wu, Maxime Alexandra Tulling: On the availability of inverse scope reading in Dutch doubly-quantified thetic sentences

Yusuke Yagi, Takanobu Nakamura, Kenta Mizutani: Toward a semantic theory of universal NCIs

Eleonora Zani, Ivano Ciardelli, Emanuela Sanfelici: Testing theories of SDA via acquisition

Ruizhe Zhou, Benjamin Spector, Mora Maldonado: An experimental assessment of the nall lexical gap