Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16: Volume 2

Editor: Ana Aguilar Guevara, Anna Chernilovskaya, and Rick Nouwen, Year:2012

This volume contains the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Utrecht University, 2011.

Table of Contents (Volume 2):

JAPANESE DEMONSTRATIVE SO-NO AS A MODIFIER LACKING DEFINITENESS
Makoto Kaneko 335

DISCOURSE UPDATE AND SEMANTIC COMPOSITION OF PARTICLES: THE CASE OF NEN IN OSAKA JAPANESE
Tomohide Kinuhata and Yurie Hara 349

POSITIVE AND CONDITIONAL SEMANTICS FOR GRADABLE MODALS
Peter Klecha 363

ON THE STRUCTURAL AND TYPICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MASS AND COUNT NOUNS: EVIDENCE FROM ROMANCE
Ivona Kučerová and Anna Moro 377

ON THE PRAGMATICS OF PRAGMATIC SLACK
Sven Lauer 389

THREE WAYS TO AVOID COMMITMENTS: THE PRAGMATICS OF DECLARATIVE FORCE MODIFIERS
Sophia Malamud and Tamina Stephenson 403

LICENSING BY MODIFICATION: THE CASE OF POSITIVE POLARITY PRONOUNS
Salvador Mascarenhas 417

ON THE (NON-)FUTURE ORIENTATION OF MODALS
Lisa Matthewson (invited speaker) 431

STANDARD FIXING AND CONTEXT MANIPULATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF DEGREE MODIFICATION
Yaron McNabb 447

ADVERBIAL COMPARATIVES: EVIDENCE FROM MALAYALAM
Mythili Menon 461

POSITIVE POLARITY ITEMS: AN ALTERNATIVE-BASED ACCOUNT
Andreea Cristina Nicolae 475

CARDINALS WITHOUT PLURALITY
Sarah Ouwayda 489

BRAZILIAN BARE NOUNS IN SUBJECT POSITION OF EPISODIC PREDICATES
Roberta Pires de Oliveira 501

HIDDEN QUANTIFICATION IN PREFIX- AND PARTICLE VERBS
Antje Rossdeutscher 513

NUMERICALS: COUNTING, MEASURING AND CLASSIFYING
Susan Rothstein (invited speaker) 527

THE DOUBLE NATURE OF NEGATIVE ANTONYMY
Galit W. Sassoon 543

COMPARISON TO ARBITRARY STANDARDS
Stephanie Solt 557

MEASUREMENT-THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS OF INTERADJECTIVE-COMPARISON LOGIC
Satoru Suzuki 571

TELICITY, MEASURES, AND ENDPOINTS
Sergei Tatevosov 585

RESULT IN MANDARIN VERB COMPOUNDS
Shiao Wei Tham 599

CONTENT NOUNS AND THE SEMANTICS OF QUESTION-EMBEDDING PREDICATES
Wataru Uegaki 613

UNIVERSAL FREE CHOICE?
Bob van Tiel 627

ON THE EVENT SEMANTICS OF NOMINALS AND ADJECTIVES – THE ONE-ARGUMENT HYPOTHESIS
Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts 639

STRENGTH AND SIMILARITY OF SCALAR ALTERNATIVES
Natalia Zevakhina 647