German measurement structures: Case-marking and non-conservativity

R Pasternak, U Sauerland - The Journal of Comparative Germanic …, 2022 - Springer
This paper addresses the syntactic and semantic analysis of nominal measurement
structures like two liters of black coffee in German. German allows the case-marking on the …

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

LM Toquero-Pérez - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2024 - Springer
Spanish has two forms to introduce comparative standards: que 'that'and de 'of.'The
comparative morpheme is always the same más '-er/more.'While que-comparatives show no …

[PDF][PDF] Invitation to formal semantics

E Coppock, L Champollion - Manuscript, Boston University and New …, 2019 - eecoppock.info
Semantics, the study of meaning, is a core subfield of linguistics, a discipline that integrates
methods from the social sciences, liberal arts, and mathematics to study the nature of …

A compositional intersective account of heterofunctional coordination

A Przepiórkowski - Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
The analysis presented in this paper extends the uniform intersective (“boolean”) treatment
of conjunctive coordinators to Heterofunctional Coordination (HC), ie, coordination of …

[PDF][PDF] Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser

R Pasternak, T Graf - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
A common view in the theoretical literature is that quantifier raising (QR) is a clause-
bounded operation. But in a paper published in Glossa, Wurmbrand (2018) argues that (i) …

[PDF][PDF] A'-dependencies in Greek: A movement approach to resumption

R Georgiou - Patras: University of Patras dissertation, 2022 - lingbuzz.net
The present thesis focuses on gap and resumptive A'-dependencies in Greek and its main
goal is to investigate the syntactic representation and the syntax-semantics mapping that …

Same and different are additive presupposition triggers

L Mikkelsen, D Hardt - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2024 - Springer
We propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different, relying on two
claims: the first is that same and different are able to take scope, and the second is that they …