Most even budget yet: Some cases for game-theoretical semantics in naturallanguage

This paper explores ways of expanding the logical and linguistic theory kno wn as game-theoretic semantics (GTS) to cover some new linguistic categorie s and expressions. I will show the applicability and relevance of GTS to a cross-sample of linguistic categories, ranging from polarity items (many of which are lexical), the morpheme even, and adverbs of quantification, to t he realm of generalised quantifiers. I will also suggest how eventualities can be dealt with in a game-theoretic way. I argue that in each of the case s, GTS provides a theoretically motivated methodological foundation in its treatment of these constructions, and its potentials are evident in many ot her linguistic categories as well, seen from the cross-categorial phenomeno n of informational independence, which in this paper is illustrated in term s of eventualities.