A Szabolcsi - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015 - Springer
In many languages, the same particles that form quantifier words also serve as connectives, additive and scalar particles, question markers, roots of existential verbs, and so on. Do …
S Charlow - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 - Springer
I argue that alternative-denoting expressions interact with their semantic context by taking scope. With an empirical focus on indefinites in English, I show how this approach improves …
I motivate a new theory of exceptional scope phenomena in natural language—that is, the ability of some expressions to affect the interpretation of others from inside scope islands. I …
There is a prominent line of work in natural language semantics, rooted in the work of Hamblin, in which the meaning of a sentence is not taken to be a single proposition, but …
M Morzycki - Natural Language Semantics, 2011 - Springer
This paper offers an analysis of metalinguistic comparatives such as more dumb than crazy in which they differ from ordinary comparatives in the scale on which they compare: ordinary …
A Haida - Semantics and linguistic theory, 2008 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Question words show striking similarities among the languages of the world: They are typically morphologically related to indefinites and they are typically, if not universally …
In this thesis I examine a variety of linguistic elements which involve “alternative” semantic values—a class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions—and …
This study represents a typological investigation of additive markers that correspond to English too, also, and as well. It is cross-linguistically common for additives to fulfill a wide …