Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts

Introduction.- Part I: Linguistic Models.- A Feature-based Account of Weak Islands By Christopher Laenzlinger & Gabriela Soare.- On the Syntax and Pragmatics of some Clause-peripheral Positions By Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti.- Two Challenges for 'neo-saussurean' Approaches to Morphosyntax By Frederick Newmeyer.- Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers By Genoveva Puskas.- A Pragmatic and Philosophical Examination of Everett's claims about Pirahã By Anne Reboul.- A Perspective-based Account of the Imperfective Paradox By Gaetano Fiorin & Denis Delfitto.- Spatial Deictic Expressions in Serbian ovde, tamo, tu; a new Approach By Tijana Asic.- The Singular Square: Contrariety and Double Negation from Aristotle to Homer By Laurence Horn.- Connectives: Order, Causality and Beyond By Joanna Blochowiak.- Part II: Cognitive Models.- Irony, Hyperbole, Jokes and Banter By Deirdre Wilson.- Context Selection in Relevance Theory By Stavros Assimakopoulos.- Sequential Structure of Discourse Segments Shaped by the Interplay of Recipient Design or Salience By Istvan Kecskes.- She said you said I saw it with my own eyes: A Pragmatic Account of Commitment By Kira Boulat & Didier Maillat.- Why French Modal verbs are not Polysemous, and other Considerations on Conceptual and Procedural Meanings By Louis de Saussure.- Building and Interpreting ad hoc Categories: A Linguistic Analysis By Caterina Mauri.- Grammar and Theory of mind in Autism By Stéphanie Durrleman.- The Place of Human Language in the Animal World By Stephen R. Anderson.- Part III: Computational Models.- Temporal Coherence in Discourse: Theory and Application for Machine Translation By Cristina Grisot.- Discourse Connectives: Theoretical Models and Empirical Validations in Humans and Computers By Sandrine Zufferey & Andrei Popescu-Belis.- The Interface between Semantics and Discourse Functions: Exploring the Adjective Possibile in a Corpus of Italian Financial news By Andrea Rocci & Elena Musi.- 'What is pretty cannot be beautiful?' A Corpus-based Analysis of Aesthetics of Nature By Jesus Romero-Trillo & Violeta Fuentes.- When English meets French. A case study in Comparative Diachronic Syntax By Eric Haeberli.- Some Recent Results on Cross-linguistic, Corpus-based Quantitative Modelling of Word Order and Aspect By Paola Merlo.- Parsing Language-Specific Constructions: The case of French Pronominal Clitics By Eric Wehrli