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Natural Language Semantics and Computability
Richard Moot, Christian Retoré
This paper is a reflexion on the computability of natural language semantics. It does not contain a new model or new results in the formal semantics of natural language: it is rath…
Typed Hilbert Epsilon Operators and the Semantics of Determiner Phrases (Invited Lecture)
Christian Retoré
The semantics of determiner phrases, be they definite de- scriptions, indefinite descriptions or quantified noun phrases, is often as- sumed to be a fully solved question: common n…
Deverbal semantics and the Montagovian generative lexicon
Livy-Maria Real-Coelho, Christian Retoré
We propose a lexical account of action nominals, in particular of deverbal nominalisations, whose meaning is related to the event expressed by their base verb. The literature about…
Plurals: individuals and sets in a richly typed semantics
Bruno Mery, Richard Moot, Christian Retoré
We developed a type-theoretical framework for natural lan- guage semantics that, in addition to the usual Montagovian treatment of compositional semantics, includes a treatment of…
Semantic Types, Lexical Sorts and Classifiers
Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré
We propose a cognitively and linguistically motivated set of sorts for lexical semantics in a compositional setting: the classifiers in languages that do have such pronouns. These…
Advances in the Logical Representation of Lexical Semantics
Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré
The integration of lexical semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of the meaning of natural lan- guage has prompted changes to the global framework derived from Montague. In thos…