Proceedings of SALT 18

Proceedings of the 18th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference, held March 21-23, 2008 at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, edited by Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito.

Published: 2008-10-03

Articles

Islands of Contradiction: Presuppostion and Negative Islands

Márta Abrusán

1-18
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Narrative Effects in Russian Indirect Reports and What They Reveal About the Meaning of the Past Tense

Daniel Altshuler

19-36
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Epistemics with Attitude

Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard

37-54
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Chisholm's Paradox in "Should"-Conditionals

Ana Arregui

55-72
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Classifiers and Number Marking

Alan Bale, Hrayr Khanjian

73-89
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Multiple Incremental Themes and Figure/Path Relations

John Beavers

90-107
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Possession of a Controlled Substantive: Light have and Other Verbs of Possession

John Beavers, Elias Ponvert, Stephen Wechsler

108-125
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Comparative Correlatives as Anaphora to Differentials

Adrian Brasoveanu

126-143
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The Paradox of Clarity: Defending the Missing Inference Theory

George Bronnikov

144-157
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Almost Everything Is Relative in the Caucasus

Ivano Caponigro, Maria Polinsky

158-175
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Amazing DPs

Elena Castroviejo, Magdalena Schwager

176-193
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Free and Bound Pro-Verbs: A Unified Treatment of Anaphora

Simon Charlow

194-211
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Clausal Question-Answer Pairs in ASL

Kathryn, Ivano & Rachel Davidson, Caponigro & Mayberry

212-229
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Events in Space

Amy Rose Deal

230-247
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The others Compared to each other: Consequences for the Theory of Reciprocity

Jakub Dotlačil, Øystein Nilsen

248-265
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A Unified Analysis of Indicative and Biscuit Conditionals as Topics

Christian Ebert, Cornelia Endriss, Stefan Hinterwimmer

266-283
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Implicit Content and the Argument from Binding

Paul Elbourne

284-301
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Plural Superlatives and Distributivity

Natalia Fitzgibbons, Yael Sharvit, Jon Gajewski

302-318
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Computing Scalar Implicatures

Lyn Frazier

319-339
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More on Quantifiers in Comparative Clauses

Jon Gajewski

340-357
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A New Predictive Theory of Presupposition Projection

Benjamin R. George

358-375
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The Indefiniteness and Focusing of Question Words

Andreas Haida

376-393
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Identity and Indeterminacy in "-ever" Free Relatives

Daphna Heller, Lynsey Wolter

394-410
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Why Free Relatives Sometimes Behave as Indefinites

Stefan Hinterwimmer

411-428
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Disruption of NPI Licensing: the Case of Presuppositions

Vincent Homer

429-446
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Beyond Truth Conditions: The Semantics of "most"

Tim Hunter, Justin Halberda, Jeffrey Lidz, Paul Pietroski

447-464
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What an "Average" Semantics Needs

Christopher Kennedy, Jason Stanley

465-482
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Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables

Ezra Keshet

483-495
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Presuppositional Compositionality with Japanese "mo"

Mana Kobuchi-Philip

496-509
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Dependencies in Temporal Adjunct Clauses

Kiyomi Kusumoto

510-526
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Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Semantic Variation

Lisa Matthewson

527-550
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Infinitivals With "too": Degree Operator Scope and Parasitic Gaps

Jon Nissenbaum, Bernhard Schwarz

551-568
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Directionality in numeral quantifiers: the case of "up to"

Rick Nouwen

569-582
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Unifying "if"-conditionals and unconditionals

Kyle Rawlins

583-600
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A Degree Account of Exclamatives

Jessica Rett

601-618
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Perspectives on Concealed Questions

Floris Roelofsen, Maria Aloni

619-636
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Negative Adjectives and Transformation Values

Galit Weidman Sassoon

637-654
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Presupposition Projection: the New Debate

Philippe Schlenker

655-693
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Non-deictic Tenses in Conditionals

Katrin Schulz

694-710
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Indeterminate NPIs and Scope

Junko Shimoyama

711-728
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Letting negative polarity alone for "let alone"

Maziar Toosarvandani

729-746
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A New Approach to Contrastive Topic: Partition Semantics and Pragmatics

Katsuhiko Yabushita

747-764
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Experiments on the Role of the Question Under Discussion for Ambiguity Resolution and Implicature Computation in Adults

Arjen Zondervan, Luisa Meroni, Andrea Gualmini

765-777
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