We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work
done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with …

Scalar implicatures (SIs) and, more generally, quantity-based implicatures (QBIs) have been
intensely investigated since Grice's seminal work. Recently, SIs and QBIs have been at the …

The goal of this paper is to describe, illustrate, and advocate for the targeted construction
storyboard methodology for semantic fieldwork.* Storyboards are pictorial representations of …

Cognitive scientists have become increasingly interested in understanding how natural
minds represent and reason about possible ways the world could be. However, there is …

On the basis of five case studies from languages of the American Pacific Northwest, we
argue that, at least in the areas of syntax and semantics, a scientific approach to the study of …

A compositional analysis is provided of temporal perspective and orientation (Condoravdi
2002) of modals in Dutch, English, Gitksan (Tsimshianic), and St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) …

This dissertation contributes to the growing tradition of work in which detailed exploration of
understudied languages informs formal semantic and syntactic theory and probes the …

Empirical evidence is at the heart of research on natural language meaning. Surprisingly,
however, discussions of what constitutes evidence in research on meaning are almost non …

This paper provides a formal analysis of the grammatical encoding of temporal information
in Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), thereby contributing to the recent debate on temporality in …

Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event complex-ity. This
would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event construals. Two …