Some notes on postverbal subjects in declarative (and other non-wh-) sentences

Lectures on Appendicitis and Notes on Other Subjects

Generalized Quantifiers in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences

In this paper we present a logical system able to compute the semantics of both declarative and interrogative sentences. Our proposed analysis takes place at both the sentential and at the discourse level. We use syntactic inference on the sentential level for declarative sentences, while the discourse level comes into play for our treatment of questions. Our formalisation uses a type logic sen...

Knowing-‘wh’, Mention-Some Readings, and Non-Reducibility

This paper presents a new criticism of reductive approaches to knowledge-‘wh’ (i.e., those approaches on which whether one stands in the knowledge-‘wh’ relation to a question is determined by whether one stands in the knowledge-‘that’ relation to some answer(s) to the question). It argues in particular that the truth of a knowledge-‘wh’ attribution like ‘Janna knows where she can buy an Italian...

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Remarks and Replies ‘ ‘ Postverbal ’ ’ Subjects and the Mapping Hypothesis

Superficially postverbal subjects of free inversion languages such as Italian are argued to be able to meet two distinct structural analyses: they may occupy either a VP-internal position, as more traditionally assumed, or a higher (preverbal and, actually, left-peripheral) position, with the remnant of the clause crossing leftward over them by dislocation or focus movement. These are all and o...