I greatly appreciate the opportunity to spend four wonderful years at the Center for
Language and Cognition in Groningen and to be able to work on this thesis (besides other …

The empirical base of this dissertation is comprised of two parts, neither of which has been
systematically investigated in the generative literature before. The first one is dedicated to …

This dissertation explores the diversity and unity of coordination constructions in natural
language. Following the goal of bridging syntactic typology with formal semantics, it takes …

The Modal Existential construction (ModEx)—as in Russian Mne est'čto počitat','There is
something for me to read'—has received much attention in the literature. This paper …

This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general
negation n´ e-fused with a wh-word (k-word). The elements from this class take infinitival …

This paper proposes a new semantic analysis of modal existential wh-constructions (MECs).
The core idea is that MECs denote a special type of “eventive property” of entities …

Formal approaches to Czech Page 1 Formal approaches to Czech Annotated bibliography
Radek Šimík October 2, 2023 Authors still to be included/completed (list not exhaustive): • Jitka …

This paper looks at the mutual relation among a number of types of wh-constructions. It
proposes that wh-constructions (and wh-words) are organized in what I call a wh-hierarchy …

This document summarizes the existing literature on modal existential (wh-) constructions
(MECs) and more recently also on existential free relatives (Ex-FRs). 1 I try to provide as …

Issues in wh-syntax and semantics Page 1 Issues in wh-syntax and semantics Radek Šimık
University of Potsdam, SFB 632 simik@uni-potsdam.de EGG summer school, August 1–5 …