The goal of this short paper is to show that esthetic adjectives—exemplified by “beautiful” and “elegant”—do not pattern stably on a range of linguistic diagnostics that have been used to taxonomize the gradability properties ...

Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It is general praxis in ...

This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After ...

One of the defining traits of language is its capacity to mediate between concepts in our mind, which encapsulate generalizations, and the things they refer to in a given communicative act, with all their idiosyncratic ...

Focusing on the case of deverbal gradable adjectives such as acquainted, we show that the selective behavior of degree modifiers such as very and well provides an important prove on the semantic typology of adjectives. ...

In this squib, I argue that facts involving DP-internal only cast serious doubt/non the viability of explaining these similarities via an obligatory/namount relative analysis for relatives out of existentials

Though the term “existential sentence” goes back at least as far as Jespersen (1924, 155) and is used in descriptions of many languages to refer to a designated construction, it is difficult to identify exactly what these ...