This paper treats the correspondence between the reference type of NPs (ie, mass nouns,
count nouns, measure constructions, plurals) and the temporal constitution of verbal …

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 …

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 …

The paper provides a semantic analysis of intervention effects in wh-questions. The
interpretation component of the grammar derives uninterpretability, hence ungrammaticality …

JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at
the Hebrew Univer sity of Jerusalem. In the context of this, Edit Doron asked me to present a …

Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases,
in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the …

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a
plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example …

This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in
language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we …

Modifying the descriptive and theoretical generalizations of Relativized Minimality, we argue
that a significant subset of weak island violations arise when an extracted phrase should …

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of
insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a …