Simon Pauw
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simon Pauw is involved.
Articles
2016 Embodied cognitive semantics for quantification Computational Construction Grammar and Constructional Change, Beuls, Katrien and Remi van Trijp (eds.), pp. 251–264 | Article
The present paper proposes an operational semantic model of natural language quantifiers (e.g., many, some, three) and their use in quantified noun phrases. To this end we use embodied artificial agents that communicate in and interact with the physical world. We argue that existing paradigms… read more
2012 The emergence of quantifiers Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 277–304 | Article
Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects
of a set. They include numerals, such as ``three'', or circumscriptions, such as ``a few''.
The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent.
We provide a cultural-evolution explanation for the… read more