Topics in Semantics

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• Collins, Chris. “ A scope freezing effect with negated quantifier phrases .” Natural Language Semantics 25 (2011), pp. 315–327. ↗
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• ———. “ Outer negation of universal quantifier phrases .” Unpublished paper, New York University (2017). ↗
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• Fauconnier, Gilles. “ Pragmatic scales and logical structure .” Linguistic Inquiry 6(3) (1975), pp. 353–375. ↗
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• Gajewski, Jon R. “ Licensing strong NPIs .” Natural Language Semantics 19 (2011), pp. 109–148. ↗
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• Homer, Vincent. “Presuppositions can be disruptors too: a case against Strawson-entailment” in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (2008), pp. 220–228. ISBN: 9781574734287.
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• Ladusaw, William A. “Polarity sensitivity as inherent scope relations.” Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Texas, Austin, TX (1979). ISBN: 978-0824045555.
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• Topics: Environments and modified numeral quantifiers · Readings: Buccola, Brian and Benjamin Spector. “ Modified numerals and maximality .” Linguistics and Philosophy 39 (2016), pp. 151–199. ↗
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• von Fintel, Kai. “ NPI licensing, Strawson entailment, and context dependency .” Journal of Semantics 16 (1999), pp. 97–148 (1999). ↗
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• Gajewski, Jon and I-Ta Chris Hsieh. “Comments on negative polarity items in definite descriptions” in The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim , vol. 1, ed. Luka Crnic and Uli Sauerland. MITWPL 70 (2014), pp. 181–198. ISBN: 9781502857477.
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• Gajewski, Jon. “ Another look at NPIs in definite descriptions: An experimental approach ” in Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives ( Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol. 1 ), ed. P. Larrivée and C. Lee. Springer (2016). ↗
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• Schein, Barry. “Event semantics” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language , ed. Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara. Routledge (2012), pp. 280–294. ISBN: 9781138776180.
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• Buy at MIT Press Winter, Yoad. “Coordination and collectivity” in Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics . MIT Press (2001), pp. 29–75. ISBN: 9780262232180. ↗
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• Aloni, Maria. “ Free choice, modals, and imperatives .” Natural Language Semantics 15(1) (2007), pp. 65–94. ↗
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• Bar-Lev, Moshe E. and Danny Fox. “ Universal free choice and innocent inclusion ” in Proceedings of SALT 27, ed. Dan Burgdorf, Jacob Collard, Sireemas Maspong, and Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir (2017), pp. 95–115. ↗
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• Bassi, Itai and Moshe E. Bar-Lev. “A unified existential semantics for bare conditionals” in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, ed. Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde (2018), pp. 125–142. ISBN: 9781726706841.
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• Chierchia, Gennaro, Danny Fox, and Benjamin Spector. “Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon” in Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning , vol. 3, ed. Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner. De Gruyter (2012), pp. 2297–2331. ISBN: 9783110253375.
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• Chierchia, Gennaro. “Universal free choice” in Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention . Oxford University Press (2013), ISBN: 9780199697977.
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• Crnič, Luka. “ Free choice under ellipsis .” The Linguistic Review 34(2) (2017), pp. 249–294. ↗
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• ———. “ A note on connected exceptives and approximatives .” Journal of Semantics 35(4) (2018), pp. 741–756. ↗
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• von Fintel, Kai. “ Specific generics .” Handout at Rutgers Colloquium, MIT (1996). ↗
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• ———. “ Evidence for presuppositional indefinites .” Manuscript, MIT (1998). ↗
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• Gajewski, Jon. “ NPI any and connected exceptive phrases .” Natural Language Semantics 16 (2008), pp. 69–110. ↗
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• ———. “An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items” in Beyond ‘Any’ and ‘Ever’: New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity , ed. E. Csipak, R. Eckards, M. Liu, and M. Sailer, pp. 183–212. De Gruyter (2013). ISBN: 9783110303728.
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• Geurts, Bart. “Existential import” in Existence: Semantics and Syntax (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) , ed. I. Comorovski and K. von Heusinger. Springer (2008). ISBN: 9781402061981.
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• Hirsch, Aron. “ An unexceptional semantics for expressions of exception .” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22(1), Article 16 (2016). ↗
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• Hsieh, I-Ta Chris. “ A note on possibility modals and NPI licensing .” Journal of Semantics , 31(3) (2014) pp. 433–441. ↗
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• Kadmon, Nirit and Landman, Fred. “ Any .” Linguistics and Philosophy 16 (1993), pp. 353–422. ↗
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• Menéndez-Benito, Paula. “On dispositional sentences” in Genericity , ed. Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, and Fabio Del Prete. Oxford University Press (2012), pp. 276–292. ISBN: 9780199691807.
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• Nickel, Bernhard. “ Generically free choice .” Linguistics and Philosophy 33 (2010), pp. 479–512. ↗
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• Cremers, Alexandre, Manuel Križ, and Emmanuel Chemla. “ Probability judgments of gappy sentences ” in Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions , ed. S. Pistoia-Reda and F. Domaneschi. Springer (2016). ↗
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• Crnič, Luka. “ Any : Logic, likelihood, and context .” Manuscript, HUJI (2018/2019). ↗
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• Francis, Naomi. “ Presupposition-denying uses of even .” Proceedings of SALT 28 (2018), pp. 161–176. ↗
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• Krifka, Manfred. “ The semantics and pragmatics of weak and strong polarity items .” Linguistic Analysis 25 (1995), pp. 209–257. ↗
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• Lahiri, Utpal. “ Focus and negative polarity in Hindi .” Natural Language Semantics 6 (1998) pp. 57–123. ↗
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• Schwarz, Bernhard. “ Notes on even (PDF) .” Unpublished manuscript, Stuttgart University (2000). ↗
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• Buccola, Brian and Luka Crnič. “ NPIs, collectivity, and intervention .” Manuscript (2018/2019) ↗
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• Chierchia, Gennaro. “ Even negative polarity items and only negative polarity items” in Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention . Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 143–190. ISBN: 9780199697977.
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• Chierchia, Gennaro. “Intervention” in Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention . Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 373–427. ISBN: 9780199697977.
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• Crnič, Luka. “ Non-monotonicity in NPI licensing .” Natural Language Semantics 22 (2014), pp. 169–217. ↗
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• Heim, Irene. “ A note on negative polarity and downward entailingness (PDF) ” in Proceedings of NELS 14, pp. 98–107 (1984). ↗
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• Rothschild, Daniel. “ Non-monotonic NPI-licensing, definite descriptions, and grammaticalized implicatures (PDF) ” in Proceedings of SALT 16, ed. M. Gibson and J. Howell (2006). ↗
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