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 …

Abstract Prevalent treatments of Obligatory Control (OC) derive the distribution of PRO from
either government or case theory. However, ample crosslinguistic evidence demonstrates …

Abstract In Spanish (and other Romance languages) certain predicates select the
subjunctive mood in the embedded clause, while others select the indicative mood. In this …

This paper investigates the interpretive restrictions on the subjects of imperative, promissive,
and exhortative sentences—what we call the “jussive” clause types. It argues that the data …

The central idea behind this paper is that presuppositions of soft triggers arise from the way
our attention structures the informational content of a sentence. Some aspects of the …

Optative utterances express a wish, regret, hope or desire without an overt lexical item that
means wish, regret, hope or desire (cf. Quirk et al. 1972, 1985; Scholz 1991; Rosengren …

In this paper, I wish to discuss two syntactic properties that oppose finite verb forms to non-
finite ones. The first property is the ability of finite forms to license a referentially independent …

Individuals in Time Page 1 Individuals in Time Tense, aspect and the individual/stage
distinction María J. Arche John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics …

When philosophical logicians attempted to give a semantics for Modal Logic (Kripke 1963),
they observed that they could base their models on possible worlds, entities that determine …

This paper examines the obviation which holds between the pronominal subject of a
subjunctive complement to desiderative/directive predicates in Romance and proposes that …