Ambiguity and vagueness are two varieties of interpretive uncertainty which are often
discussed together, but are distinct both in their essential features and in their significance …

Argument structure-the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its
dependents-is at the base of syntactic theory and the theory of the interface with semantics …

Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose
from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language use …

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal
meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which …

A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent
properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the …

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words
such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a …

This paper examines the use of scalar adjectives in two contexts that have played a role in
discussions of the subjective/objective distinction:'faultless disagreement'discourses and the …

I suppose that everyone who starts theorizing about language and its use is struck early by
the need for some sort of distinction between what is “semantic” and what is “pragmatic”; …

The fields of semantics and pragmatics are devoted to the study of conventionalized and
context‐or use‐dependent aspects of natural language meaning, respectively. The …

This thesis investigates the phenomenon of polysemy: a single lexical form with two or
multiple related senses (eg catch the rabbit/order the rabbit; lose a wallet/lose a relative; a …