Evaluative adjectives have often been claimed to manifest a strong, and even exclusive,
preference for the nonrestrictive reading (henceforth the 'nonrestrictive bias' of evaluative …

This paper outlines the distribution of epithets that occur in a ccommand relation with their
antecedents in environments where Condition C obviation effects occur. It argues that …

This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic theoretical investigations on epithets.
Epithets (such as “the bastard”) are anaphoric expressions which take the shape of a …

This dissertation investigates the constraints on referential dependency relations that can
hold between epithets and their antecedents under c-command. The initial observation …

The study of definite descriptions has been a central part of research in linguistics and
philosophy of language since Russell's seminal work'On Denoting'(Russell 1905). In that …

This paper analyses twenty-six appellations of some popular cars in Nigeria. The data were
gathered through visits to some retail car dealer shops in Nigeria, the participant observation …

This paper is devoted to a particular aspect of the interpretation of evaluative adjectives
(marvelous, horrible), that is, adjectives that are compatible with subjective attitude verbs like …

This dissertation investigates the constraints on referential dependency relations that can
hold between epithets and their antecedents under c-command. The initial observation …