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Generalising Conservativity

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Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2010)

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A constraint on functions from sets and relations to sets is studied. This constraint is a generalisation of the constraint of conservativity known from the study of generalised quantifiers in natural languages. It is suggested that this generalised constraint constitutes a semantic universal.

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    Richard Zuber

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Anuj Dawar

  2. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Prof Luis Freire s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50740-540, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Ruy de Queiroz

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Zuber, R. (2010). Generalising Conservativity. In: Dawar, A., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13824-9_20

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