According to the alternative semantics for focus, the semantic reflec of intonational focus is a
second semantic value, which in the case of a sentence is a set of propositions. We examine …

This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a
general characterization of IS—following Chafe (1976)—within a communicative model of …

The distinction between telic and atelic predicates has been described in terms of the
algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of modeltheoretic semantics. This …

This dissertation investigates the ways in which natural language restricts the domains of
quantifiers. Adverbs of quantification are analyzed as quantifying over situations (instead of …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction
of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German …

The study of Russian is of great importance to syntactic theory, due in particular to its
unusual case system and its complex word order patterns. This book provides an essential …

This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will
sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future …

A critical review of the main themes arising out of recent literature on the semantics of
ordinary event talk. The material is organized in four sections:(i) the nature of events, with …

It is generally assumed that there are two types of genericity, called characterizing
statements and kind reference in Krifka et al.(1995). Characterizing statements express …