This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase
structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and …

The weekly Magazine of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung regularly
issues Marcel Proust's famous questionnaire which is answered each time by a different …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple
yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm …

This book contains six studies on different subjects in the theory of questions and answers.
They were written over a period of several years. Yet, we trust that they present a coherent …

The goal of this paper is to attempt a resolution of the apparent conflict between two
approaches to noun phrase (NP) interpretation, one being Montague's uniform treatment of …

This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions,
and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition …

This paper treats the correspondence between the reference type of NPs (ie, mass nouns,
count nouns, measure constructions, plurals) and the temporal constitution of verbal …

Sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration,
frequency, habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How do they do this? It is the …

It is well known that quantifiers in natural language can take scope wider than where they
occur overtly. This has been captured by assuming either a covert syntactic operation (QR) …