A major goal of modern syntax has been to find principles that rule out sentences that seem
ungrammatical. To achieve this goal, it has been proposed that syntactically odd (or …

Scalar additive operators, such as Engl. even, Fr. même, Germ. sogar, Sp. aun, and so forth,
vary crosslinguistically in terms of their distributional behavior, in particular with respect to …

This paper deals with the interpretation and distribution of universal Free Choice (FC) items,
such as English FC any or Spanish cualquiera. Crosslinguistically, universal FC items can …

This paper proposes a new explanation for the oddness of presuppositional and negative
islands, as well as the puzzling observation that these islands can be obviated by certain …

The additive presupposition of particles like too/even is uncontested, but usually stipulated.
This paper proposes to derive it based on two properties.(i) too/even is cross-linguistically …

This thesis is about weak islands. Weak islands are contexts that are transparent to some
but not all operator-variable dependencies. For this reason, they are also sometimes called …

Rawlins (2013: 160) observes that both unconditionals and more classical free choice can
be meta-characterized using orthogonality, but does not actually unify the two. One reason …

The paper discusses two types of quantifier particles in Hungarian that both participate in
reiterated constructions. One type follows and the other precedes its host, which makes it …

This chapter illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential,
generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier …

The topic of this PhD thesis is the behaviour of free-choice items (FCIs) in Hungarian. FCIs
such as any have been at the forefront of research interest in the past decades (eg Ladusaw …