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van Rooij, R. (2006) Evolutionary games and semantic universals. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 356--363.

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Abstract

An evolutionary perspective on signaling games is adopted to explain some semantic universals concerning truth-conditional connectives; property denoting expressions, and generalized quantifiers. The question to be addressed is: of the many meanings of a particular type that can be expressed, why are only some of them expressed in natural languages by ‘simple’ expressions?
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@inproceedings{vanrooij06evoGame,
  author={Robert van Rooij},
  title={Evolutionary games and semantic universals},
  year={2006},
  pages={356-363},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/vanrooij06evoGame.html}
}