It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors:
epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each …

Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M.
Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that …

Abstract Since Donald Davidson's seminal work ''The Logical Form of Action
Sentences''(1967) event arguments have become an integral component of virtually every …

We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation.
Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or …

This paper is about the information‐theoretic foundations upon which useful explanatory
and predictive models of dynamic geographic phenomena can be based. It traces the …

The research presented here has the aim of uncovering the underlying mechanisms in the
process of lexicalization crosslinguistically. The term 'lexicalization'means the way …

This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core
claim is that it is possible to create a transparent mapping from syntax to logical form such …

Colloquially, episodic memory is described as “the memory of personally experienced
events”. Even though episodic memory has been studied in psychology and neuroscience …

Diese Untersuchung handelt von sein–dem, laut Grimm'schem Worterbuch," allgemeinsten
und farblosesten aller verbalbegriffe". Sie geht der Frage nach, ob die Kopula sein im …

This paper discusses the interaction of aspect and modality, and focuses on the puzzling
implicative effect that arises when perfective aspect appears on certain modals: perfective …