The goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of exclamation. I focus
on two key observations: first, that sentence exclamations like Wow, John bakes delicious …

This dissertation is a study of the roles played by degree modifiers-functions from sets of
degrees to sets of degrees-across different constructions and languages. The immediate …

This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences
across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the …

In this paper, I propose a semantic account of exclamations. The account relies on an
important distinction between 'proposition exclamations'(exclamations expressed with …

While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are
intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of …

¿ Cuántos grados hay?¿ Por qué no todos los adjetivos y adverbios se pueden graduar?¿
Qué tienen en común el adverbio sumamente, la expresión en extremo y la comparación …

This chapter consists of two case studies: we will examine N of an N constructions (eg that
idiot of a doctor) and the small clause complement of the verb seem (eg He seems a fool.) …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

The first goal of this paper is to argue that a number of independently treated phenomena–
the 'measure'interpretation of pseudopartitives (Landman, 2004), amount relatives (Heim …

This dissertation is a case study of the syntax of the left periphery, using exclamatives in
English and Japanese. In the first part, I discuss exclamatives in Japanese in detail by …