A framework for pragmatic analysis is proposed which treats discourse as a game, with
context as a scoreboard organized around the questions under discussion by the …

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 …

We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work
done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with …

This thesis is concerned with sluicing, the ellipsis of TP in a Wh-question leaving a Wh-
phrase “remnant” overt. Sluicing is subject to an identity condition that must hold between …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

This paper proposes a semantics for declarative and interrogative complements and for so-
called responsive verbs, like know and forget, which embed both kinds of complements …

This dissertation pursues two tightly interwoven goals: to bring out the relevance of
questions for the field of logic, and to establish a solid theory of the logic of questions within …

In classical logic, the proposition expressed by a sentence is construed as a set of possible
worlds, capturing the informative content of the sentence. However, sentences in natural …

This paper presents an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Mayan languages. The
focus is primarily descriptive, but the article also attempts to frame the sound patterns of …

Since Merchant 2001, it has been widely agreed that the licensing condition on sluicing is at
least partially semantic in nature. This article argues that the semantics this condition …