This paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in
particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq …

This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at
the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free …

A framework for pragmatic analysis is proposed which treats discourse as a game, with
context as a scoreboard organized around the questions under discussion by the …

This chapter will be concerned with the conjunctive interpretation of a family of disjunctive
constructions. The relevant conjunctive interpretation, sometimes referred to as a 'free …

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known
as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of …

This article provides an account of the distribution and interpretation of POLARITY
PARTICLES in responses, starting with yes and no in English, and then extending the …

This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-
rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily …

The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one
that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under …

This article presents a unified theory of polarity-sensitive items (PSIs) based on the notion of
domain widening. PSIs include negative polarity items (like Italian mai 'ever'), universal free …

This article presents an account of the semantic content and conventional discourse effects
of a range of sentence types in English, namely falling declaratives, polar interrogatives and …