This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …

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 …

I argue that we can reason not only to new beliefs but to basically any change in attitude we
can think of, including the abandonment of belief (contra John Broome), the acquisition of …

In this paper, we propose a novel account of desire reports, ie sentences of the form⌜ S
wants p⌝. Our theory is partly motivated by Phillips-Brown's (Mind 130 (518): 413–437 …

Persian possesses a number of stative complex predicates with dâshtan 'to have'that
express certain kinds of mental state. I propose that these possessive experiencer complex …

Abstract Mandarin Chinese, along with Japanese, Yorùbá, Mòoré, and Samoan, has been
argued to lack 'degree abstraction', a configuration at LF involving lambda abstraction over a …

In this paper, we present two puzzles involving desire reports concerning series of events.
What does a person want to happen in the first event–is it the event with the highest …

The analysis of desire ascriptions has been a central topic of research for philosophers of
language and mind. This work has mostly focused on providing a theory of want reports, that …

In this paper, I draw attention to comparative preference claims, ie sentences of the form⌜ S
prefers p to q⌝. I show that preference claims exhibit interesting patterns, and try to develop …

Contemporary research in compositional, truth-conditional semantics often takes judgments
of the relative unacceptability of certain phrasal combinations as evidence for lexical …