Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16

Ana Aguilar Guevara, Anna Chernilovskaya, and Rick Nouwen, 2012

Preface

Volume 1

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  1. On Epistemic Indefinites: a Note on Emphatic Free Choice Uses
    Maria Aloni (Invited Speaker)
  2. The Pragmatics of Quantifier Scope: a Corpus Study
    Scott Anderbois, Adrian Brasoveanu and Robert Henderson
  3. The Scalar Source of Stative Passives
    Rebekah Baglini
  4. A Unified Account of Specificity in Catalan Sign Language (CSL)
    Gemma Barberà
  5. Imperatives Denote Actions
    Chris Barker (Invited Speaker)
  6. Stage-Level Evaluativity Is Desiderativity
    Charles Beller and Erin Zaroukian
  7. Futures in Polish and Slovenian From The Perspective of a Force-Dynamic Model
    Joanna Błaszczak and Dorota Klimek-Jankowska
  8. Polarity Particles and The Anatomy of N-Words
    Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka F. Farkas and Floris Roelofsen
  9. Inherent Evaluativity
    Micha Y. Breakstone
  10. (A)symmetric Vagueness and The Absolute/Relative Distinction
    Heather Burnett
  11. Functional Standards and The Absolute/Relative Distinction
    Lisa Bylinina
  12. Conclusion, Consequence and Solutionhood: The Semantics of Three Catalan Connectives
    Elena Castroviejo and Laia Mayol
  13. The Scalar Reading of Son Propre (His Own): Evidence For The Existence of a Scalarity Operator
    Isabelle Charnavel
  14. Czech Dokud and Telicity
    Mojmír Dočekal
  15. On The (In)compatibility of Non Neutral Adjectives and Measure Phrases
    Jenny Doetjes
  16. Binominal Each as an Anaphoric Determiner: Compositional Analysis
    Jakub Dotlačil
  17. Stressed Out! Accented Discourse Particles: The Case of Doch
    Markus Egg and Malte Zimmermann
  18. On Alternatives in Imperatives: The Case of Romanian Vreun
    Anamaria Fălăuş
  19. Building Gradable Adjectival Passives
    Helga Gese and Vera Hohaus
  20. Monads For Conventional Implicatures
    Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh
  21. Russian Imperfective Imperatives
    Timothy W. Grinsell
  22. Kapa as an End-of-Scale Marker in Bole and Ngizim (West-Chadic)
    Mira Grubic
  23. Only in Imperatives
    Andreas Haida and Sophie Repp
  24. Requantification and Partial Focus in Indefinites
    Stefan Hinterwimmer and David Schueler

Volume 2

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  1. Japanese Demonstrative So-No as a Modifier Lacking Definiteness
    Makoto Kaneko
  2. Discourse Update and Semantic Composition of Particles: The Case of Nen in Osaka Japanese
    Tomohide Kinuhata and Yurie Hara
  3. Positive and Conditional Semantics For Gradable Modals
    Peter Klecha
  4. On The Structural and Typical Differences Between Mass and Count Nouns: Evidence From Romance
    Ivona Kučerová and Anna Moro
  5. On The Pragmatics of Pragmatic Slack
    Sven Lauer
  6. Three Ways To Avoid Commitments: The Pragmatics of Declarative Force Modifiers
    Sophia Malamud and Tamina Stephenson
  7. Licensing By Modification: The Case of Positive Polarity Pronouns
    Salvador Mascarenhas
  8. On The (Non-)Future Orientation of Modals
    Lisa Matthewson (Invited Speaker)
  9. Standard Fixing and Context Manipulation: an Experimental Investigation of Degree Modification
    Yaron McNabb
  10. Adverbial Comparatives: Evidence From Malayalam
    Mythili Menon
  11. Positive Polarity Items: an Alternative-Based Account
    Andreea Cristina Nicolae
  12. Cardinals Without Plurality
    Sarah Ouwayda
  13. Brazilian Bare Nouns in Subject Position of Episodic Predicates
    Roberta Pires De Oliveira
  14. Hidden Quantification in Prefix- and Particle Verbs
    Antje Rossdeutscher
  15. Numericals: Counting, Measuring and Classifying
    Susan Rothstein (Invited Speaker)
  16. The Double Nature of Negative Antonymy
    Galit W. Sassoon
  17. Comparison To Arbitrary Standards
    Stephanie Solt
  18. Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Interadjective-Comparison Logic
    Satoru Suzuki
  19. Telicity, Measures, and Endpoints
    Sergei Tatevosov
  20. Result in Mandarin Verb Compounds
    Shiao Wei Tham
  21. Content Nouns and The Semantics of Question-Embedding Predicates
    Wataru Uegaki
  22. Universal Free Choice?
    Bob Van Tiel
  23. On The Event Semantics of Nominals and Adjectives - The One-Argument Hypothesis
    Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts
  24. Strength and Similarity of Scalar Alternatives
    Natalia Zevakhina