Yoad Winter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 838810 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yoad Winter |
| PRENOMES | Yoad |
| SOBRENOME | Winter |
| ASSINATURA | WINTER Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7209-710X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Projection or admittance? Presupposition accommodation and the Karttunen calculus
This paper examines two approaches to presuppositions: one viewing them as inferences projecting from sentences under negation and other logical operators, and another defining them as admittance conditions of utterances. Neither approach fully accounts for the “proviso problem”, which arises when a sentence’s presuppositional inferences are logically stronger than its necessary admittance conditions. To address this challenge, we propose a calcu…
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction
In many languages, reciprocal meanings are expressed either by grammatical means or by using lexical predicates. The grammatical strategy is productive and may involve derivational affixes (Swahili -an ) or pronouns (English each other ) with transitive forms, whereas lexical reciprocity is expressed by a restricted class of intransitive predicates like English kiss or meet . The situation is more complex in Romance languages, where reciprocal ve…
Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction
Previous developmental studies of conjunction have focused on the syntax of phrasal and sentential coordination (Lust, 1977; de Villiers, Tager-Flusberg & Hakuta, 1977; Bloom, Lahey, Hood, Lifter & Fiess, 1980, among others). The present study examined the flexibility of children's interpretation of conjunction. Specifically, when two predicates that can apply simultaneously to a single individual are conjoined in the scope of a plural definite (…
Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations
Reciprocal alternations appear with binary predicates that also have a collective unary form. Many of these binary predicates are symmetric: if A dated B then B dated A. Most symmetric predicates in English show a simple kind of reciprocity: A and B dated means “A dated B”, or equivalently “B dated A”. Similar observations hold for nouns and adjectives like cousin and identical. Non-symmetric predicates like hug, fight and kiss also show reciproc…
On the grammar of a Senegalese drum language
On the grammar of a Senegalese drum language
Senegalese drummers often recite improvised texts while playing, considering the texts to reflect the rhythms’ meanings. Unlike in other African traditions, drums are rarely used as a speech surrogate. It is shown here that Senegalese rhythms involve language-like grammar rules, which are partly independent of the grammar of the players’ spoken language. The rhythms do not acoustically mimic speech, and the speech-drum matching is based on a lexi…
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
On some problems of (in)definiteness within flexible semantics
Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics
Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory of central linguistic phenomena involving coordination, plurality, and scope. The proposed theory makes use of the standard Boolean interpretation of conjunction, a choice-function account of ind…
Atoms and Sets
This article analyzes the interactionsof semantic number, morphological number, and quantification. It argues that the traditional typology of distributive and collective predicates is unsuitable for a truth-conditional theory of plurality. A new test is proposed for classifying the semantic number of predicates according to their behavior with singular/plural quantificational noun phrases such as every/all student(s) and no teacher(s). Predicate…
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis Get access Yoad Winter Yoad Winter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 18, Issue 4, November 2001, Pages 333-365, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/18.4.333 Published: 01 November 2001
Distributivity and Dependency
Choice Functions and the Scopal Semantics of Indefinites
Syncategorematic Conjunction and Structured Meanings
No abstract.
Contrast and Implication in Natural Language
In this paper we introduce a theoretical framework and a logical application for analysing the semantics and pragmatics of contrastive conjunctions in natural language. It is shown how expressions like although, nevertheless, yet, and but are semantically definable as connectives using an operator for implication in natural language and how similar pragmatic principles affect the behaviour of both contrastive conjunctions and indicative condition…
Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
Atoms and Sets
This article analyzes the interactionsof semantic number, morphological number, and quantification. It argues that the traditional typology of distributive and collective predicates is unsuitable for a truth-conditional theory of plurality. A new test is proposed for classifying the semantic number of predicates according to their behavior with singular/plural quantificational noun phrases such as every/all student(s) and no teacher(s). Predicate…
On some problems of (in)definiteness within flexible semantics
Distributivity and Dependency
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis Get access Yoad Winter Yoad Winter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 18, Issue 4, November 2001, Pages 333-365, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/18.4.333 Published: 01 November 2001
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics
Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory of central linguistic phenomena involving coordination, plurality, and scope. The proposed theory makes use of the standard Boolean interpretation of conjunction, a choice-function account of ind…
On the grammar of a Senegalese drum language
Senegalese drummers often recite improvised texts while playing, considering the texts to reflect the rhythms’ meanings. Unlike in other African traditions, drums are rarely used as a speech surrogate. It is shown here that Senegalese rhythms involve language-like grammar rules, which are partly independent of the grammar of the players’ spoken language. The rhythms do not acoustically mimic speech, and the speech-drum matching is based on a lexi…
Contrast and Implication in Natural Language
In this paper we introduce a theoretical framework and a logical application for analysing the semantics and pragmatics of contrastive conjunctions in natural language. It is shown how expressions like although, nevertheless, yet, and but are semantically definable as connectives using an operator for implication in natural language and how similar pragmatic principles affect the behaviour of both contrastive conjunctions and indicative condition…
Syncategorematic Conjunction and Structured Meanings
No abstract.
Choice Functions and the Scopal Semantics of Indefinites
Distributivity and Dependency
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis Get access Yoad Winter Yoad Winter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 18, Issue 4, November 2001, Pages 333-365, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/18.4.333 Published: 01 November 2001
Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics
Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic theory of central linguistic phenomena involving coordination, plurality, and scope. The proposed theory makes use of the standard Boolean interpretation of conjunction, a choice-function account of ind…
Atoms and Sets
This article analyzes the interactionsof semantic number, morphological number, and quantification. It argues that the traditional typology of distributive and collective predicates is unsuitable for a truth-conditional theory of plurality. A new test is proposed for classifying the semantic number of predicates according to their behavior with singular/plural quantificational noun phrases such as every/all student(s) and no teacher(s). Predicate…
Total Adjectives vs. Partial Adjectives
On some problems of (in)definiteness within flexible semantics
Bare nominals and reference to capacities
On the grammar of a Senegalese drum language
On the grammar of a Senegalese drum language
Senegalese drummers often recite improvised texts while playing, considering the texts to reflect the rhythms’ meanings. Unlike in other African traditions, drums are rarely used as a speech surrogate. It is shown here that Senegalese rhythms involve language-like grammar rules, which are partly independent of the grammar of the players’ spoken language. The rhythms do not acoustically mimic speech, and the speech-drum matching is based on a lexi…
Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction
Previous developmental studies of conjunction have focused on the syntax of phrasal and sentential coordination (Lust, 1977; de Villiers, Tager-Flusberg & Hakuta, 1977; Bloom, Lahey, Hood, Lifter & Fiess, 1980, among others). The present study examined the flexibility of children's interpretation of conjunction. Specifically, when two predicates that can apply simultaneously to a single individual are conjoined in the scope of a plural definite (…
Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations
Reciprocal alternations appear with binary predicates that also have a collective unary form. Many of these binary predicates are symmetric: if A dated B then B dated A. Most symmetric predicates in English show a simple kind of reciprocity: A and B dated means “A dated B”, or equivalently “B dated A”. Similar observations hold for nouns and adjectives like cousin and identical. Non-symmetric predicates like hug, fight and kiss also show reciproc…
Projection or admittance? Presupposition accommodation and the Karttunen calculus
This paper examines two approaches to presuppositions: one viewing them as inferences projecting from sentences under negation and other logical operators, and another defining them as admittance conditions of utterances. Neither approach fully accounts for the “proviso problem”, which arises when a sentence’s presuppositional inferences are logically stronger than its necessary admittance conditions. To address this challenge, we propose a calcu…
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction
In many languages, reciprocal meanings are expressed either by grammatical means or by using lexical predicates. The grammatical strategy is productive and may involve derivational affixes (Swahili -an ) or pronouns (English each other ) with transitive forms, whereas lexical reciprocity is expressed by a restricted class of intransitive predicates like English kiss or meet . The situation is more complex in Romance languages, where reciprocal ve…
Linguistics (13 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Mathematics (7 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (5 obras) · Natural language processing (5 obras) · Advanced Algebra and Logic (4 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras)