This article reviews the set of possible paths from a semantics based on Simple Type
Theories (STTs) toward one based on Rich Type Theories (RTTs) and the motivations …

The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood
and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The …

Co-predication is one of the most frequently used linguistic tests to tell apart shifts in
polysemic sense from changes in homonymic meaning. It is increasingly coming under …

In many Malayic languages (western Austronesian), subjects can undergo A'-movement
without any special qualification, whereas non-subject nominals can only A'-move if the verb …

In this chapter, I examine two types of Slavic derived collective nouns, namely spatial
collectives such as Polish kwiecie 'clump of flowers' and social collectives like …

Homonymy is often used to showcase one of the advantages of context-sensitive word
embedding techniques such as ELMo and BERT. In this paper we want to shift the focus to …

The paper presents a novel semantic account of the so-called" intersective/non-intersective"
ambiguity of structures such as beautiful dancer. The proposal contrasts with Larson's …

In the semantics of human collective nouns there are two mechanisms at work, leading to
distinct types of collectivity. The collectivity of 'crowds' is based on the contiguity of its …

Abstract Language users frequently encounter generic personal statements, which refer to a
person or group of people whose gender is irrelevant or unknown (eg,“A doctor must go to …

This paper offers a compositional semantics whose central premise is that nouns are
oneplace predicates of eventualities, just like verbs and adjectives. It includes:• an analysis …