On several occasions in recent linguistic research, operations that used to be considered part of pragmatics were syntacticized: a covert operator was postulated to enrich the meaning of some constitu...

This paper demonstrates that in Gitksan, measure phrases (MPs) occurring with relative gradable adjectives (GAs) like ’wii ’nakw ‘tall’ receive differential interpretations even in the absence of an o...

Yoon (1996) observed that The cups are clean is taken by default to describe all the cups, while The cups are dirty might describe only some of them. This paper grounds Yoon's clean/dirty contrast in ...

We are delighted to announce that Alexandre Cremers (Vilnius University, Cognistats.eu) and Viola Schmitt (MIT) have joined the editorial team of SNL. Alexandre works at the intersection of theoretica...

Conditional wh‐questions with VP Ellipsis are root object wh‐questions that appear with an if‐clause which hosts an elided VP. Two interpretations of the elided object are allowed: a wh‐bound variable...

Standard accounts of modals and conditionals fail to derive the correct meaning of anankastic conditionals like If you want to go to Harlem, you have to take the A train, which seems non-compositional...

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