Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions.This book presents a novel experimental…
Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet -- The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory? -- The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew -- The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary -- Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew -- A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax -- Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited.Th…
Introducing Perspectives on Aspect -- Aspectual Composition: Surveying the Ingredients -- Quantized Direct Objects Don’t Delimit After All -- Quantification and Aspect -- Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition -- Atelicity, Pluractionality, and Adverbial Quantification -- On Accumulating and Having IT All -- Adverbs of Completion in an Event Sema…
The Nature and Scope of Ellipsis -- Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis -- The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives -- Nonsententials in Minimalism -- A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion -- On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions -- Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication -- The Link between Sentences and ‘Assertion’: An Evolutionary Ac…
- Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Meaning and Communication (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Filippo Domaneschi) -- Blindness, Short-sightedness, and Hirschberg’s contextually ordered alternatives: a reply to Schlenker (2012) (Giorgio Magri) -- Remarks on oddness and conjunction (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Jacopo Romoli) -- A fine-grained global analysis of implicatures (Robert van Ro…