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This paper offers an initial investigation into how the number of choices available to individual agents may influence choice at the group level by formalizing and simulating a social version of the No Alternatives Argument (NAA). The Social NAA ...

This paper asks two questions: (i) In an ambiguous context, what is the interpretation of a sentence like The men wrote musicals? (ii) How can we succinctly characterize the differences between readings that a sentence has in an ambiguous context, ...

The paper discusses the class of agent-oriented manner adverbials based on an investigation of the lexical meaning of the adverbial sorgfältig (‘carefully’). The analysis proposes that the adverbial specifies the content of the action-plan of the ...

We tackle the practical problem of finding a good rule to recommend a collective set of news items to a group of media consumers with possibly very disparate individual interest in the available items. For our analysis, we adapt a formal framework ...

We discuss the open problem of parsing the Dyck language of 3 symbols, , using a 2-Multiple Context-Free Grammar. We attempt to tackle this problem by implementing a number of novel meta-grammatical techniques and present the associated software ...

Privative adjectives such as fake have long posed problems to theories of adjectives in a compositional semantics. In this paper, I argue that a theory like Del Pinal’s recent Dual Content semantics, which encodes lexical entries with both an ...

Shan, a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Myanmar, Thailand, and nearby countries, uses bare nouns to express both unique and anaphoric definiteness, a definiteness distinction identified by [15]. This novel data pattern from the author’s ...

I argue that pronominal anaphora across mixed parafictional/metafictional discourse (e.g. In The Lord of the Rings,goes through an immense mental struggle.is an intriguing fictional character!) poses a problem for current dynamic approaches to ...

In this paper, we offer a balanced response to the problem of logical omniscience, whereby agents are modeled as non-omniscient yet still logically competent reasoners. To achieve this, we account for the deductive steps that form the epistemic ...

This paper considers how to derive free relatives—e.g. John eats [what Mary eats]—in Minimalist Grammars. Free relatives are string-identical to indirect questions—e.g. John wonders [what Mary eats]. An analysis of free relatives as nominalised ...

In this paper I present a NetLogo simulation program which models human communication with indication of information source. The framework used is evolutionary game theory. Under different initial settings the individuals in the simulation either ...

The meaning components of may/or and must/or sentences have been discussed intensively by a number of theoretical accounts. The debates are concerned with whether free choice inferences are part of logical meaning or scalar implicatures, and ...

There is a fruitful line of work in incorporating questions into epistemic logic (van Benthem and Minică 2009; Baltag et al. 2016; among others); among others). Based on the viewpoint that communication is a process of raising and resolving issues,...

Adjectives such as tall or late which can enter comparative constructions or be modified by intensifiers such as very are called gradable. They have received considerable attention in formal semantics and, more recently, in Bayesian pragmatics. ...