"Only" as a Mirative Particle (2009)
The concept of mirativity was introduced in typology by DeLancey (1997) for certain "tenses". DeLancey refers to earlier traditions in "Balkan Linguistics". Malchukov (2003) uses it in a typological...
Markers or Speech Act markers (2008)
This paper discusses two possible formal approaches to the semantic/pragmatic characterisation of a subclass of the modal particles. It may well be that the ap-
Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics (2008)
Update Semantics —more than related dynamic frameworks such as DRT — offers a promise of being able to integrate that part of pragmatics that is rule governed with semantics.
74 FACHBEITRÄGE Discourse Particles as Speech Act Markers (2008)
Eine Reihe von Diskurspartikeln werden mit dem Ziel analysiert, die Rolle, die sie bei der Markierung von Sprechakten spielen können, zu erklären. Die Analyse verwendet eine...
Optimality-Theoretic Pragmatics (2008)
The article aims to give an overview about the application of Optimality Theory (OT) to the domain of pragmatics. In the introductory part we discuss different ways to view the division of labor...
2.1.1 The Basics.......................... 4 (2008)
Ori Garin, Dr. Henk Zeevat, Dr. Paul Dekker, Dr. Maria Aloni
under the supervision of Dr. Henk Zeevat, and submitted to the Board of
Minimal Sorts for Interpreting Pictures (2007)
Henk Zeevat, D. Wang, Issn -x, Henk Zeevat, Dejuan Wang
Computational approaches to simulate human beings interpreting pictures are important for understanding perceptual Gestalt and for building computer systems that support visual communication. Based...
Benedikt Löwe, Robert van Rooy, (2007)
Bernhard Schröder, Participants Stefan Bold, Patrick Braselmann, Lucas Champollion, Stephan Cursiefen, Paul Dekker, ...
ILLC-Day 2 in Bonn “Language ” was the third installment of a series of Amsterdam-Bonn collaborative workshops, after LiB-Day in Amsterdam (June 30, 2003) and ILLC-Day in Bonn (November 30,...
The optimization of discourse anaphora (2004)
David I. Beaver, Maria Wolters, Henk Zeevat
Abstract. In this paper the Centering model of anaphora resolution and discourse coherence (Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein, 1983, 1995) is reformulated in terms of Optimality Theory (ot) (Prince and...
Benedikt Löwe, Robert van Rooy, (2004)
Bernhard Schröder, Henk Zeevat, Participants Stefan Bold, Patrick Braselmann, Lucas Champollion, Stephan Cursiefen, ...
ILLC-Day 2 in Bonn “Language ” was the third installment of a series of Amsterdam-Bonn collaborative workshops, after LiB-Day in Amsterdam (June 30, 2003) and ILLC-Day in Bonn (November 30,...
Alternatives as in Rooth (1992, Natural Language Semantics, 1, 75–116) must be distinct from the utterance they are alternatives to. This paper tries to analyse distinctness and thereby to give a...
The Asymmetry of Optimality Theoretic Syntax and Semantics (2000)
This paper argues for a combination of semantics and syntax in an optimality theoretic framework that avoids the rat/rad problem and provides simultaneously a certain amount of bidirectionality,...
Demonstratives in Discourse (1999)
There are two influential theories that deal with the role of the context in determining the meaning of sentences: Kaplan's logic of demonstratives and Kamp's discourse representation theory. How...
A Syntax Directed Approach to Picture Semantics (1996)
D. Wang, H. Zeevat, Issn -x, Dejuan Wang, Henk Zeevat
If one constructs a visual language, it is necessary to have a methodology for constructing the relationship between aspects of the pictures and the corresponding aspects of the application domain....
Abstracting over Semantic Theories (1993)
Alexander Guy, Peter Ruhrberg, Henk Zeevat, Beyond Edinburgh, I Mark
ing over Semantic Theories Alexander Guy Brockway Holt Doctor of Philosophy University of Edinburgh Abstract The topic of this thesis is abstraction over theories of formal semantics for natural...
Presupposition and Accommodation in Update Semantics (1992)
A reconstruction is presented of van der Sandt's theory of presupposition in the framework of update semantics and extended to belief sentences. The resulting view is confronted with earlier...
Expressing Generalizations in unification-based grammar formalisms (1989)
Marc Moens, Jo Calder, Ewan Klein, Mike Reape, Henk Zeevat
This paper shows how higher levels of general-ization can be introduced into unification gram-mars by exploiting methods for typing grammati-cal objects. We discuss the strategy of using global...
This paper proposes three revisions to the standard view on presupposition: the employment of optimality theory for the defaults and preferences, the possibility of inaccessible antecedents for...