This paper presents a comprehensive review of persuasion techniques and their
applications in the context of designing persuasive communication systems for marketing …

This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate
important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic …

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known
as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of …

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 …

Imperatives may be interpreted with many subvarieties of directive force, for example as
orders, invitations, or pieces of advice. I argue that the range of meanings that imperatives …

Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of
interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis, where each modal …

DISJUNCTION IN ALTERNATIVE SEMANTICS Page 1 DISJUNCTION IN ALTERNATIVE
SEMANTICS A Dissertation Presented by LUIS ALONSO-OVALLE Submitted to the Graduate …

The notes for this course have been evolving for years now, starting with some old notes
from the early 1990s by Angelika Kratzer, Irene Heim, and myself, which have since been …

In certain types of infinitival complementation constructions in three quite dissimilar
languages (German, Japanese, and Itelmen) expected interpretations curiously, but …

Reference to non-overt arguments has been made in the description of a wide range of
syntactic phenomena. Some of them (PRO, pro, A/A′-traces) are relatively well understood …