Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6

Edited by Olivier Bonami and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr.

Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6 is a collection of papers presented at CSSP 2005.

This publication only avaiblable electronically and can be downloaded from this website.

You can either download the entire volume (3MB), or access the individual chapters below:

Avant-propos / Foreword	5
Anne Abeillé In defense of lexical coordination	7
Claire Beyssade and Jean-Marie Marandin The Speech Act Assignment Problem Revisited: Disentangling Speaker’s Commitment from Speaker’s Call on Addressee	37
Miriam Butt The Dative-Ergative Connection	69
Elisabet Engdahl Information packaging in questions	93
Olga Fedorova and Igor Yanovich Lexically modifying binding restrictions: Case for a variable-free binding theory	113
Itamar Francez Possessors, Goals and the Classification of Ditransitive Predicates: Evidence from Hebrew	137
Jules Gouguet Adverbials and Mandarin argument structure	155
Jacques Jayez and Anne Beaulieu-Masson What room for viewpoints?	175
Dalina Kallulli A unified analysis of passives, anticausatives and reflexives	201
Takafumi Maekawa Configurational and Linearization-based Approaches to Negative Inversion	227
Alda Mari Linearizing sets: each other	249
Ora Matushansky Why Rose is the Rose: On the use of definite articles in proper names	285
Ora Matushansky and E. G. Ruys Meilleurs vœux: Quelques notes sur la comparaison plurielle	309
Brian J. Reese The Meaning and Use of Negative Polar Interrogatives	331
Jessica Rett Pronominal vs. determiner wh-words: evidence from the copy construction	355
Manfred Sailer Don’t Believe in Underspecified Semantics: Neg Raising in Lexical Resource Semantics	375
Hedde Zeijlstra The Ban on True Negative Imperatives	405