Semantics etc.

The proceedings of Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris 2007 are online.

Editor(s): Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Table of contents:

LOBKE AELBRECHT Dutch modal complement ellipsis 7

ANA ARREGUI Resolving similarity in embedded contexts 35

ELENA CASTROVIEJO MIRÓ Adverbs in restricted configurations 53

JINYOUNG CHOI & MARIBEL ROMERO Rescuing existential free choice items in episodic sentences 77

GUGLIELMO CINQUE Two types of non-restrictive relatives 99

DENIS CREISSELS Remarks on split intransitivity and fluid intransitivity 139

LAURENCE R. HORN “I love me some him”: The landscape of non-argument datives 169

GIANINA IORDACHIOAIA & ELENA SOARE Two kinds of event plurals: Evidence from Romanian nominalizations 193

JACQUES JAYEZ & LUCIA M. TOVENA Presque and almost: How argumentation derives from comparative meaning 217

JEAN-PIERRE KOENIG AND LIAN-CHENG CHIEF Scalarity and state-changes in Mandarin (and other languages) 241

SVETA KRASIKOVA Comparison in Chinese 263

YUSUKE KUBOTA Solving the morpho-syntactic puzzle of the Japanese -te form complex predicate: A Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar analysis 283

GABRIELA MATOS & ANA BRITO Comparative clauses and cross linguistic variation: a syntactic approach 307

ULI SAUERLAND Pseudo-sloppy readings in flat binding 331

MARTIN SCHÄFER Resolving scope in manner modification 351

TATJANA SCHEFFLER Relevance conditionals as utterance modifying adverbials 373

SERGEI TATEVOSOV Subeventual structure and non-culmination 393

ROBERT VAN ROOIJ Comparatives and quantifiers 423

How ignoring existential import can take you to the land of dinosaurs:

For a long time, I have imagined that when I’m retired (of course, at the moment, who actually believes anymore that they can retire at all), I would spend a lot of pleasurable time examining medieval manuscripts in all kinds of European libraries and monasteries and write a full history of the square of opposition. Now, it seems that the modern age has made that vision a bit moot. The New York Times today reports about the digitization of the abbey library at St Gallen, Switzerland. A quick check of what’s already online shows some manuscripts about logic and semantics. Here’s a square of opposition from a manuscript containing a copy of Apuleius’ Peri Hermeneias:

So, now I can do some of this work during my free (hah!) time rather than wait until I’m 74.

Janneke Huitink’s dissertation (to be defended November 13 in Nijmegen) is now available on her homepage: Modals, Conditionals and Compositionality. Highly recommended!

[Disclosure: I am member of Janneke's "manuscriptcommissie" and also, as she says in her acknowledgements, "by far the most cited author in this dissertation" -- so I am surely a bit biased.]