In this book, Nomi Erteschik-Shir develops a new theory of focus structure, integrating
insights from syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics. She explores the role of focus …

In this paper, we argue that by making a careful distinction between the notions of
inchoativity and telicity, we can gain new insight into how changes of state can be expressed …

This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (ie, nominal,
adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a …

This dissertation investigates nexuses (subject-predicate structures) in subordinate contexts.
Various patterns of data are analyzed using tools from formal syntactic theory. The bracketed …

Middles across languages share a core of common semantic characteristics. Yet they exhibit
striking differences, as shown on the language-sample that includes Dutch, English …

The paper re‐examines the relevance of Carlson's (1977) distinction between stage level
predicates and individual level predicates for several modules of grammar. In the first part of …

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 …

Most semantic literature on existentials has focused on the so-called definiteness effect
(DE), namely the observation that certain NP types do not easily occur in the construction …

As is well known, Carlson's (1977) aspectual distinction between individual-level predicates
(ILPs) and stage-level predicates (SLPs) has proven to be relevant to the analysis of a …

Milsark introduced the terms weak and strong to distinguish (respectively) the nominals that
could appear in English there‐existential sentences (eg, some trees, cf. There are some …