ESSLLI 2012 Student Session Proceedings

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The 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) took place on August 6-17, Opole, Poland, under the auspices of FoLLI. This volume contains the proceedings of the 17th Student Session, an annual event which takes place within ESSLLI. It contains 21 papers addressing a wide range of topics in logic, language, and computation. These papers were selected from a large number of excellent submissions on the basis of reports by expert reviewers in the relevant areas.

Great thanks are due to the area experts and to the two previous chairs, Marija

Slavkovik (2010) and Daniel Lassiter (2011), for their advice and support, to Kristian K. Olesen for help with matters LATEX, and to Janusz Czelakowski, Urszula WybraniecSkardowska and the rest of the ESSLLI 2012 Organizing Committee. Special recognition goes to Springer for their continuing support of the Student Session. Most importantly, thanks to all those who submitted papers, and to the many reviewers who generously gave their time to provide thoughtful feedback on each submission.

Rasmus K. Rendsvig

Chair, ESSLLI 2012 Student Session

Copenhagen, August 2012

Copyright ➞ 2012 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.

Organization

Chair:

Co-Chairs:

Area Experts:

Rasmus K. Rendsvig

Niels Beuck (Language and Computation)

Margot Colinet (Logic and Language)

Maxim Haddad (Logic and Computation)

Anders Johannsen (Language and Computation)

Dominik Klein (Logic and Computation)

Matthijs Westera (Logic and Language)

Ann Copestake (Language and Computation)

Friederike Moltmann (Logic and Language)

Eric Pacuit (Logic and Computation)

Using Conditional Probabilities and Vowel Collocations of a Corpus of

Orthographic Representations to Evaluate Nonce Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

O¨zkan Kılı¸c A Dynamic Probabilistic Approach to Epistemic Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Manuel Kriˇz Computing with Numbers, Cognition and the Epistemic Value of Iconicity . . . . . 84

Jos´e Gustavo Morales The Force of Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Mu¨hlenbernd, Nick & Adam Existential Definability of Modal Frame Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Tin Perkov Spotting and Improving Modularity in Large Scale Grammar Development . . . . . 112

Simon Petitjean Checking Admissibility in Finite Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Christoph Ro¨thlisberger

Scalar Properties of Degree Modification in Karitiana: Evidence for

Indeterminate Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Luciana Sanchez Mendes PCFG Extraction and Sentence Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

No´emie-Fleur Sandillon-Rezer An Interaction Grammar for English Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi

References

Toward a Discourse Structure Account of Speech and Attitude Reports . . . . . . . . 170 Antoine Venant

Some , Speaker Knowledge, and Subkinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Andrew Weir

Operators , Universal Modality and Difference Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Michal Zawidzki

A Frame-Based Semantics of Locative Alternation in LTAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Yulia Zinova