Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study
of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …

It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors:
epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each …

It is much more important than you think it is.(1) is an example of an adjectival comparative.
In it, the adjective important is flanked by more and a comparative clause headed by than …

In this review, we discuss the empirical landscape of degree constructions cross-
linguistically as well as the major analytical avenues that have been pursued to account for …

3 Purpose-relativity in degree constructions 79 3.1 Introduction................................. 79 3.2 Not
a regular relative clause........................ 81 3.2. 1 Introducing the puzzle and an existing …

Abstract The “depth-charge” sentence, No head injury is too trivial to be ignored, is often
interpreted as “no matter how trivial head injuries are, we should not ignore them” while the …

In 1999, Rajesh Bhatt observed a curious interaction between modality and grammatical
aspect: Under imperfective marking, ability modals describe “pure,” potentially unrealized …

This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives
(GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about …

Infinitives are known to encode covert modality in certain environments including infinitival
relatives and questions. Beyond these environments, however, the precise distribution and …

[eng] The thesis" Wh-exclamatives in Catalan" is a research that intends to shed light on the
characterization of exclamatives, a type of clause that has not been paid as much attention …