This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at
the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free …

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic
papers on modals and conditionals, including'What" must" and" can" must and can …

Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M.
Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that …

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective,
perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The …

Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of
interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis, where each modal …

This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the
subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject …

This dissertation explores the interplay of grammar and context in the interpretation of modal
words like ought, necessary, and need. The empirical foci of the discussion are patterns in …

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words
such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a …

Abstract Landau (2000) distinguishes between P (artial) C (ontrol) and E (xhaustive) C
(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee …

Many languages have past-and-counterfactuality markers such as English simple past.
There have been various attempts to find a common definition for both uses, but I will argue …