Proceedings of SALT 20

Papers presented at the 20th conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) hosted by the Departments of Linguistics at the Universityof British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 29 - May 1, 2010. Edited by Nan Li and David Lutz.

Published: 2010-08-14

Front matter

Nan Li, David Lutz
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Articles

Deriving full repetition in Blackfoot with additive focus

Meagan Louie

1-18
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On the tri-ambiguous status of 'any': The view from child language

Lyn Shan Tieu

19-37
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Type-theoretical semantics with coercive subtyping

Zhaohui Luo

38-56
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Modes of comparison and Question under Discussion: Evidence from `contrastive comparison' in Japanese

Yusuke Kubota, Ai Matsui

57-75
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Compositional states

E. Matthew Husband

76-90
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Sufficiency inference in anankastic conditionals

Sveta Krasikova

91-108
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Principles of interdimensional meaning interaction

Chris Barker, Raffaella Bernardi, Chung-chieh Shan

109-127
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Marking aspect along a scale: The semantics of -te iku and -te kuru in Japanese

Yusuke Kubota

128-146
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Vivid attitudes: Centered situations in the semantics of 'remember' and 'imagine'

Tamina Stephenson

147-160
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Contrastive salient alternatives: Focus on bound pronouns

Clemens Mayr

161-178
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Weak definites and reference to kinds

Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Joost Zwarts

179-196
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Gradable epistemic modals, probability, and scale structure

Daniel Lassiter

197-215
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On the sentence-internal reading of French le même ('the same')

Isabelle Charnavel

216-232
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Incremental more

Guillaume Thomas

233-250
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Quantity and gradability across categories

M. Ryan Bochnak

251-268
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Subject domain restriction and reference-tracking

Andrew McKenzie

269-288
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Modals are monsters: on indexical shift in English

Paolo Santorio

289-308
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What projects and why

Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts

309-327
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Crossing the appositive / at-issue meaning boundary

Scott AnderBois, Adrian Brasoveanu, Robert Henderson

328-346
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Conversational backoff

Kyle Rawlins

347-365
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The metalinguistic use of vague predicates in conditionals

Stefan Hinterwimmer

366-386
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A Montagovian treatment of modal subordination

Nicholas Asher, Sylvain Pogodalla

387-405
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Alternatives as sources of semantic dependency

Anamaria Falaus

406-427
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Seuren/Rullmann ambiguities as plural comparisons

Sigrid Beck

428-450
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Sluicing as anaphora to issues

Scott AnderBois

451-470
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Focus on reflexive anaphors

Giorgos Spathas

471-488
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Even more evidence for the emptiness of plurality: An experimental investigation of plural interpretation as a species of implicature

Hazel Anne Pearson, Manizeh Khan, Jesse Snedeker

489-507
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On the acquisition of maximality in free relative clauses and plural definite descriptions

Ivano Caponigro, Lisa Pearl, Neon Brooks, David Barner

508-524
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Quantity implicature and access to scalar alternatives in language acquisition

Alan Clinton Bale, Neon Brooks, David Barner

525-543
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On the semantics of when-clauses

David Patrick Hall, Ivano Caponigro

544-563
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Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing contexts

Giorgio Magri

564-581
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Cross-linguistic representations of numerals and number marking

Alan Clinton Bale, Michaël Gagnon, Hrayr Khanjian

582-598
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The meanings of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese: a unified approach

Osamu Sawada

599-617
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Internal past, external past, and counterfactuality: evidence from Japanese

Naoko Komoto

618-635
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On the negativity of negation

Christopher Potts

636-659
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A possible worlds semantics for Cuzco Quechua evidentials

Martina T Faller

660-683
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Triggering verbal presuppositions

Marta Abrusan

684-701
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Negative Islands and obviation by 'wa' in Japanese degree questions

Bernhard Schwarz, Junko Shimoyama

702-719
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Universal laziness of pronouns

Natalia Ivlieva

720-734
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Simultaneous analyses for simultaneous present

Orin Percus, Oana Lungu

735-755
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