What do imperatives mean? We will examine some of the major questions surrounding the semantics of imperatives, exploring in particular the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics, connections to … Read More
Paths to exceptional wide scope: Choice functions in Tiwa Choice functions have been invoked in the analysis of indefinites and disjunction in order to explain their ability to take wide … Read More
Genericity and Grammar Generic statements such as those in (1) express non-accidental, fundamental characteristics of some type of individuals and/or situations. 1) a. Birds fly. b. Liz smokes after dinner. … Read More
Structuring ignorance Certain constructions in natural language are tied to an inference that the speaker cannot be more informative; they give rise to what is often referred to as 'ignorance … Read More
Verbal Symbols and Generalized Demonstrations Gillian Ramchand Abstract: In this talk I develop a new theory of the ingredients of semantic composition for the verb phrase, building on recent … Read More
Crossover asymmetries Stefan Keine (joint work w/ Rajesh Bhatt) Abstract: We investigate and analyze a crossover asymmetry in Hindi scrambling: such scrambling is not subject to (secondary) weak crossover but … Read More
Capturing semantic and social factors in morphological derivation. Janet B. Pierrehumbert (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) Abstract In morphology, the factors predicting the productivity of inflectional patterns have been … Read More