This paper offers a unified account of the English particle just that covers its exclusive,
emphatic/intensifying, precisifying, unexplanatory, unelaborative, and counter-expectational …

This paper is concerned with the broad notion of exclusivity and the question of what
features exclusive operators share, as well as the ways in which they differ. The focus of the …

A highly productive debate has arisen over the past two decades concerning the division of
labor between semantics and pragmatics in building meaning (Potts 2005; Kennedy and …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Among the scalar usages of only, there is one that has a temporal dimension. In Carla
understood the problem only on Sunday, for instance, Sunday is considered late for Carla to …

This paper examines multiple uses of the word just in the context of the range of possible
meanings of exclusive operators in general. Based on previous accounts of exclusive …

This dissertation serves as both a broad analysis of the structure and generation of
alternative sets and a detailed proposal for the lexical semantics of exclusive operators …

1Special thanks to my committee chairs Mats Rooth and Dorit Abusch, as well as to Sarah
Murray and my friends and colleagues in the Cornell Semantics Reading Group for their …

We argue that novel empirical generalizations on exclusive operators in Ch'ol (Mayan)
provide strong evidence for a morphological decompositionality of exclusivity into a core …

We propose a unifying analysis of two readings–exclusive and approximative–of the
Hebrew particle be-sax ha-kol, arguing that under both the particle is a scalar focus sensitive …