Henk Zeevat (PhD 1992 University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in Amsterdam. He has worked on semantics, pragmatics and formal grammar and their implementation, especially on discourse semantics and optimality theoretic pragmatics.

• 1 INTRODUCTION1.1 Aristotelian Competence Grammars1.1.1 Against ACG: Ambiguity1.1.2 Against ACG: Time complexity1.1.3 Against ACG: The gap between production and interpretation1.2 Production Grammar1.2.1 The primacy of production1.3 Strategies for Coordination1.4 Bayesian Interpretation1.4.1 Simulated production in interpretation1.4.2 Mirror neurons1.5 Conclusion1.6 The Other Chapters2 SYNTAX2.1 Optimality Theory2.1.1 Reversing Production2.2 Optimality-theoretic Syntax2.2.1 Optimality-theoretic syntax for word order in Dutch 2.2.2 Provisional German2.2.3 Provisional English2.3 The Production Algorithm2.3.1 Procedural interpretation of the constraints2.4 Higher Level Generation2.5 Other Issues2.5.1 More Dutch2.5.2 A worked example2.5.3 Incremental syntax checking in interpretation2.5.4 Quantification 2.6 Conclusion3 SELF-MONITORING3.1 Optional Discourse Markers3.1.1 General Self-Monitoring3.2 Word order freezing 3.3 Pronouns and Ellipsis3.4 Differential Case Marking3.5 A Case for Phonological Self-Monitoring?3.6 Conclusion 4 INTERPRETATION4.1 The Interpretation Algorithm4.2 Vision and Pragmatics4.2.1 Vision4.2.2 Other cues4.2.3 Pragmatics4.2.4 Clark buys some nails4.2.5 Scalar implicatures4.2.6 Relevance implicatures4.3 Conclusion5 MENTAL REPRESENTATION5.1 From links to representation structures5.2 Logic5.2.1 Logical operators5.3 Mental Representations in Philosophy5.4 Belief5.5 Definiteness5.6 Comparison with Discourse Semantics5.6.1 From Contexts into Discourse Representation Theory5.7 Conclusion6 Final Remarks 1616.1 Rounding off6.2 Computational Linguistics6.3 Pragmatics6.4 Semantic Compositionality6.5 LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.06.6 Language Evolution6.7 Conceptual Glue

Henk Zeevat (PhD 1992 University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in Amsterdam. He has worked on semantics, pragmatics and formal grammar and their implementation, especially on discourse semantics and optimality theoretic pragmatics.

• 1 INTRODUCTION1.1 Aristotelian Competence Grammars1.1.1 Against ACG: Ambiguity1.1.2 Against ACG: Time complexity1.1.3 Against ACG: The gap between production and interpretation1.2 Production Grammar1.2.1 The primacy of production1.3 Strategies for Coordination1.4 Bayesian Interpretation1.4.1 Simulated production in interpretation1.4.2 Mirror neurons1.5 Conclusion1.6 The Other Chapters2 SYNTAX2.1 Optimality Theory2.1.1 Reversing Production2.2 Optimality-theoretic Syntax2.2.1 Optimality-theoretic syntax for word order in Dutch 2.2.2 Provisional German2.2.3 Provisional English2.3 The Production Algorithm2.3.1 Procedural interpretation of the constraints2.4 Higher Level Generation2.5 Other Issues2.5.1 More Dutch2.5.2 A worked example2.5.3 Incremental syntax checking in interpretation2.5.4 Quantification 2.6 Conclusion3 SELF-MONITORING3.1 Optional Discourse Markers3.1.1 General Self-Monitoring3.2 Word order freezing 3.3 Pronouns and Ellipsis3.4 Differential Case Marking3.5 A Case for Phonological Self-Monitoring?3.6 Conclusion 4 INTERPRETATION4.1 The Interpretation Algorithm4.2 Vision and Pragmatics4.2.1 Vision4.2.2 Other cues4.2.3 Pragmatics4.2.4 Clark buys some nails4.2.5 Scalar implicatures4.2.6 Relevance implicatures4.3 Conclusion5 MENTAL REPRESENTATION5.1 From links to representation structures5.2 Logic5.2.1 Logical operators5.3 Mental Representations in Philosophy5.4 Belief5.5 Definiteness5.6 Comparison with Discourse Semantics5.6.1 From Contexts into Discourse Representation Theory5.7 Conclusion6 Final Remarks 1616.1 Rounding off6.2 Computational Linguistics6.3 Pragmatics6.4 Semantic Compositionality6.5 LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.06.6 Language Evolution6.7 Conceptual Glue

Henk Zeevat (PhD 1992 University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in Amsterdam. He has worked on semantics, pragmatics and formal grammar and their implementation, especially on discourse semantics and optimality theoretic pragmatics.

• 1 INTRODUCTION1.1 Aristotelian Competence Grammars1.1.1 Against ACG: Ambiguity1.1.2 Against ACG: Time complexity1.1.3 Against ACG: The gap between production and interpretation1.2 Production Grammar1.2.1 The primacy of production1.3 Strategies for Coordination1.4 Bayesian Interpretation1.4.1 Simulated production in interpretation1.4.2 Mirror neurons1.5 Conclusion1.6 The Other Chapters2 SYNTAX2.1 Optimality Theory2.1.1 Reversing Production2.2 Optimality-theoretic Syntax2.2.1 Optimality-theoretic syntax for word order in Dutch 2.2.2 Provisional German2.2.3 Provisional English2.3 The Production Algorithm2.3.1 Procedural interpretation of the constraints2.4 Higher Level Generation2.5 Other Issues2.5.1 More Dutch2.5.2 A worked example2.5.3 Incremental syntax checking in interpretation2.5.4 Quantification 2.6 Conclusion3 SELF-MONITORING3.1 Optional Discourse Markers3.1.1 General Self-Monitoring3.2 Word order freezing 3.3 Pronouns and Ellipsis3.4 Differential Case Marking3.5 A Case for Phonological Self-Monitoring?3.6 Conclusion 4 INTERPRETATION4.1 The Interpretation Algorithm4.2 Vision and Pragmatics4.2.1 Vision4.2.2 Other cues4.2.3 Pragmatics4.2.4 Clark buys some nails4.2.5 Scalar implicatures4.2.6 Relevance implicatures4.3 Conclusion5 MENTAL REPRESENTATION5.1 From links to representation structures5.2 Logic5.2.1 Logical operators5.3 Mental Representations in Philosophy5.4 Belief5.5 Definiteness5.6 Comparison with Discourse Semantics5.6.1 From Contexts into Discourse Representation Theory5.7 Conclusion6 Final Remarks 1616.1 Rounding off6.2 Computational Linguistics6.3 Pragmatics6.4 Semantic Compositionality6.5 LFG 3.0 and PrOT 2.06.6 Language Evolution6.7 Conceptual Glue