A Type-Logical Account of Quantification in Event Semantics

Philippe de Groote, Yoad Winter

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Abstract

It has been argued that Davidson’s event semantics does not combine smoothly with Montague’s compositional semantics. The difficulty, which we call the event quantification problem, comes from a possibly bad interaction between event existential closure, on the one hand, and quantification, negation, or conjunction, on the other hand. The recent literature provides two solutions to this problem. The first one is due to Champollion [2, 3], and the second one to Winter and Zwarts [13]. The present paper elaborates on this second solution. In particular, it provides a treatment of quantified adverbial modifiers, which was absent from [13].
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publicationJSAI-isAI 2014 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, and GABA, Kanagawa, Japan, October 27-28, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsTsuyoshi Murata, Koji Mineshima, Daisuke Bekki
PublisherSpringer
Pages53-65
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-662-48119-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-662-48118-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume9067
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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