The dissertation summarized here provides an account of the fact that young children
acquiring English (around age 2) often produce utterances like (1), in which they omit a form …

In this chapter, we discuss the distribution and lexical properties of common varieties of
negative polarity items (NPIs) and positive polarity items (PPIs). We establish first that NPIs …

One of the success stories in formal semantics is the analysis of NPs as generalized
quantifiers, which can be traced back from Barwise & Cooper (1981) via Montague to Frege …

A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-
standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory …

Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase
interpretation and definiteness effects. Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics …

The term 'existential sentence'is used to refer to a specialized or noncanonical construction
which expresses a proposition about the existence or the presence of someone or …

The adjectives of quantity (Q-adjectives) many, few, much and little stand out from other
quantity expressions on account of their syntactic flexibility, occurring in positions that could …

This dissertation investigates acceptable word order strategies employed in Romanian and
the dynamics of movement. It focuses on the forces behind movement and in resulting …

This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a
morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while …

Most semantic literature on existentials has focused on the so-called definiteness effect
(DE), namely the observation that certain NP types do not easily occur in the construction …