In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …
G Chierchia - Natural language semantics, 1998 - Springer
This paper is devoted to the study of bare nominal arguments (ie, determinerless NPs occurring in canonical argumental positions) from a crosslinguistic point of view. It is …
This book presents the theory of polarity sensitivity I have been developing in a number of publications (1994, 1995, 1996) culminating in my dissertation" The Landscape of Polarity …
This thesis is concerned with developing a syntax for coordinate structures which is compatible with both the syntactic behaviour of conjunction structures and with their …
With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo …
Layers in the Determiner Phrase Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS edited by LAURENCE HORN Yale UNIVERSITY Page 3 This page intentionally …
A Giannakidou - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2000 - Springer
The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow for the possibility of NC involving scoping of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose …
A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its empirical consequences. In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach …