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Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Linguistic Inquiry. :1-20
Binding and ellipsis are empirically and theoretically symbiotic: each reveals otherwise hidden facts about the other. Here I investigate a case where a theory of binding is entwined with a problematic ellipsis-licensing mechanism, with the result th
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Interactions of Degree and Quantification ISBN: 9789004431515
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Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
The Oxford Handbook of Negation ISBN: 0198830521
This chapter investigates scopal interactions between sentential negation and quantifiers, with special attention to the relative scope of negation and quantificational subjects. It examines a variety of proposals that explore the influences of phras
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Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Semantics and Pragmatics. 9:1-23
I investigate the effect of differential-phrase entailingness on the interpretation of comparative than clauses with quantificational subjects, a matter that has gone largely overlooked in the otherwise fecund recent literature. I show that only a su
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Language. 91:73-108
I examine the behavior of rare and other frequency adjectives in the tough -construction (TC). Due to the effects of a heretofore overlooked semantic selectional restriction, such adjectives have not generally been recognized as grammatical in the TC
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Journal of Semantics. 32:139-171
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Linguistic Inquiry. 44:321-332
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Journal of Linguistics. 47:341-380
I investigate the syntax and semantics of a previously unexamined English adjective construction, exemplified by sentences like Middlemarch is a long book to assign. The construction, which I call the nominal attributive-with-infinitive construction
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 28:120
Quantifiers in comparative than clauses often appear to take scope at the matrix level, a phenomenon that has spawned a large recent literature. Here I reopen an old line of investigation that seeks illumination in the strikingly similar behavior of
Autor:
Nicholas Fleisher
Publikováno v:
English Language and Linguistics. 10:225-252
The history of English passive get is examined, in an attempt to determine both the diachronic pathway of development and the linguistic mechanism of syntactic change. Passive get (as in He got arrested) is shown to have developed from inchoative get