This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

This dissertation concerns three kinds of variability that pose challenges for the
compositional semantics of question-embedding sentences:(i) lexical variation among …

Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups,'soft'and 'hard,'based on whether the
presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible and whether they project uniformly in …

According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker
can convey contextually new information in one of two ways:(a) by asserting the content as …

I propose a new theory of semantic presupposition, which I call'dissatisfaction theory'. I first
briefly review a cluster of problems-known collectively as the'proviso problem'-for most …

Abstract have found experimental evidence that a universal sentence embedding a weak
scalar term like Every student read some of the books has the strong inference that no …

The nature of presupposition projection from the scope of quantificational expressions,
particularly negative ones, continues to be both theoretically and empirically controversial …

This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives
convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed in the literature. The interaction of …

In this paper, we investigate, by means of a computational model, how individuals map
quantifiers onto numbers and how they order quantifiers on a mental line. We selected five …

Sentences such as Olivia can take Logic or Algebra ('♢∨-sentences') are typically
interpreted as entailing that Olivia can take Logic and can take Algebra. Given a standard …