This thesis investigates properties of tenses in English, Japanese, and Gitksan (Tsimshianic)
with regards to the two major dimensions along which tense denotations can differ: 1) …

This paper is concerned with the interpretation of Malay negative polarity items (NPI) 1 in
conjunction with sentential negation. I present data that show these items contributing either …

SOV languages such as Turkish, Japanese and Korean express negation as part of the verb
or as an auxiliary-like construction involving the main verb. From its clause-final position …

Japanese dare-mo has been widely acknowledged to be an NPI, furthermore, a “strict” NPI
in the sense of Giannakidou (2011) as it seems to be licensed only in an “antiveridical” …

1.1 Outline of the Paper This paper is concerned with data from Japanese and Korean which
involves NPIs and other phrases that are licensed by or associate with negation. I think that …

In many languages of the world, quantifier phrases are built with wh-words, which are
argued by numerous researchers to have no quantificational force of their own; hence, these …

In this dissertation, the possibility of employing a version of (primitive) recursive arith-metic to
build the semantic representations of natural language sentences is explored. This idea …