This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H.
Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many …

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

The aim of this paper is to capture the similarities and differences between assertions and
polar questions so as to be able to account for the systematic partial overlap that exists in …

This book began as conversations that took place as the alphabetically prior author was
writing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford University. Geography and complex personal …

This dissertation explores the semantics and pragmatics of evidentiality through a detailed
study of three evidential markers in Cuzco Quechua (spoken in Cuzco, Peru), the Direct-mi …

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 …

The goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of exclamation. I focus
on two key observations: first, that sentence exclamations like Wow, John bakes delicious …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

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 …

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …