For the last 25 years,(type) coercion—and related notions such as type shifting (Partee and
Rooth 1983), accommodation (Goldberg 1995), enriched composition (Jackendoff 1997) …

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the
treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality …

The American architect Louis Sullivan was once quoted as saying,“Form ever follows
function,” and his comment is now a familiar dictum among architects, designers and …

Examining four constructions in three languages (English quantificational nouns, Japanese
subordinating conjunctions, Cantonese coverbs, Japanese deverbal postpositions), this …

This paper focuses on non-anaphoric nominalized adjectives denoting abstract concepts,
such as le vrai 'the truth', du sublime 'the sublime', and suggests that the standard analysis in …

Cantonese exhibits a pattern of variation among verbs that has often been interpreted as
distinguishing a category of adjectives or a subcategory of adjectival verbs. However …

In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne
explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of …

This contribution examines the issue of non-canonical usages of lexical items in French,
which, as a result of their use in a construction typical of another word class than the one …

After a careful definitionof default inheritance, the paper proposes that this is the correct
explanation for every kind of mismatch. In support of this suggestion there is a fairly detailed …

I wish to consider whether different views of the organization of grammar recognize
significant structural mismatches between the syntactic and semantic representations and if …