Much current theorizing analyzes ellipsis as a PF operation silencing designated syntactic
domains from which focal constituents are extracted prior to deletion. 1 In many cases, this …

This paper develops an account of the German discourse particle denn that captures the
meaning contribution of this particle in polar questions, wh-questions, and certain …

We present a new experimental paradigm for investigating lexical expressions that convey
different strengths of speaker commitment. Specifically, we compare different evidential …

This paper offers a new account of the operations of Thai feminine polite particles khá and
khâ. These particles are compatible with sentences of different characteristics and thus …

In this paper, we focus on the syntax of question particles in Basque and provide an account
that draws new parallels between the syntactic behavior of discourse particles in Basque …

Zusammenfassung Modal particles (MPs) like German bloß form a heterogeneous lexical
category. One common property is that they do not contribute to the propositional meaning of …

The last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and
non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously examine the idea that there may be …

The overarching goal of this thesis is to argue that conditionals, more specifically,
conditional antecedents, are definite descriptions for the referential analysis of conditionals …

This paper discusses the discourse contrasts that arise in connection to direct evidentiality in
Southern Aymara (henceforth, Aymara), an understudied Andean language. Aymara has …

This paper proposes a hypothesis concerning interpretive language change, the Constant
Entailments hypothesis. The hypothesis is phrased here in pragmatic terms. It says that …