Business process management (BPM), business process reengineering (BPR), and
business process innovation (BPI) have been the primary strategies adopted by several …

Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of
interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis, where each modal …

Finite clausal arguments differ from other arguments—and other CPs—in two fundamental
ways:(a) they do not move leftward (,,,) and (b) they may combine with nouns that do not …

This dissertation examines the syntax and semantics of clausal complements. It identifies
semantic underpinnings for some syntactic properties of the arguments of propositional …

A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a
constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages. The phenomenon of indexical …

The notes for this course have been evolving for years now, starting with some old notes
from the early 1990s by Angelika Kratzer, Irene Heim, and myself, which have since been …

Sometimes form-meaning mappings in language are not arbitrary, but iconic: they depict
what they represent. Incorporating iconic elements of language into a compositional …

This paper introduces on the scene a new type of non-canonical question, dubbed non-
intrusive, exemplified by interrogatives marked by the particle oare in Romanian. It does so …

A variety of attitude predicates seem to presuppose that their complement is true, including
the cognitive factives (know, discover, realize), which presuppose their propositional …

This article shows that the deontic modals must, should and supposed to are all Positive
Polarity Items which can raise in order to avoid being in an anti-licensing environment; it …