This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in
language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

This article examines culmination phenomena from a cross‐linguistic perspective. It
provides an overview of various (non‐) culmination readings that sentences in different …

In this article I examine ditransitive verbs that can describe caused possession (eg give,
throw, send) by looking at their lexical aspectual properties, a methodology that has proved …

This article explores the architecture of the interface between morphosyntax and lexical
semantics, in particular the semantic underpinnings of argument realization. Many theories …

In this article we consider the nature of'result verbs', typically defined as verbs describing
scalar changes, which have played a significant role in the literature on verb typologies …

Standard models of aspectual classes focus on event decompositional or featural
distinctions. However, such classifications often over-or under-generate, and do not …

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Gradable adjectives such as
tall can be used in comparative constructions such as (1a) and license degree expressions …

The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term
event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable …

What are the basic building blocks of verb meanings, how are they composed into more
complex meanings, and how does this explain the grammatical properties of verbs and their …