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Many theories of presupposition fail to account for the pragmatic nature
of presuppositional justification. An alternative account will be presented
in which accommodation is essentially nonstructural: the material
to be accommodated cannot be predicted purely by consideration of the
form of t...
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Jeroen Groenendijk \& Martin Stokhof \& Frank Veltman,
{\em Coreference and Modality}, to appear in: S.~Lappin~(ed.), Handbook of
Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.
The paper presents an introduction to dynamic semantics. It does so by
providing an update semantics for a language o...
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Jeroen Groenendijk \& Martin Stokhof \& Frank Veltman, {\em Coreference and
Contextually Restricted Quantification}, to appear in: Proceedings SALT V,
DMLL Publications, Cornell.
The aim of this paper is to argue that update semantics is a natural
framework for contextually restricted quantifica...
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Compositionality, by Theo M.V. Janssen
(to appear in J.F.A.K. van Benthem & A. ter Meulen (eds), Handbook of Logic
and Linguistics, North Holland, Amsterdam)
The first topic of the paper is to provide a formalization of the principle
of compositionality of meaning. A mathematical model (based up...
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We extend Angluin's (1980) theorem to characterize identifiability of indexed
families of r.e. languages, as opposed to indexed families of recursive
languages. We also prove some variants characterizing conservativity and two
other similar restrictions, paralleling Zeugmann, Lange, and Kapur'...