This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic
papers on modals and conditionals, including'What" must" and" can" must and can …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This thesis offers a general game theoretic model of language use and interpretation and
applies it to linguistic pragmatics in the vein of (Grice 1989). The model presented here …

The starting point of this paper is the observation that English temporal and conditional
clauses resist argument fronting. The first part of the paper discusses the empirical and …

Within modern syntactic theory, focus on the importance of a fundamental distinction
between root and non-root clauses is primarily associated with Emonds (1970). In this work …

In the 1980's, the analysis of presupposition projection contributed to a 'dynamic turn'in
semantics: the classical notion of meanings as truth conditions was replaced with a dynamic …