Arndt Riester & Torgrim Solstad

Arndt Riester & Torgrim Solstad ( eds . ) : Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13

The sentence With these three shirts and four pairs of pants, one can make twelve different outfits does not entail that one can dress twelve persons. The article proposes an analysis of “configurational” entities like outfits as individual concepts. It investigates the interaction of noun phrases based on such nouns with temporal and modal operators and in collective and cumulative interpretat...

Building Event-Based Ad Hoc Properties: On the Interpretation of Adjectival Passives

The paper develops a new perspective on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectival passives that focuses on their characteristic context dependency. Adjectival passives are analyzed as a flexible grammatical means of creating a potentially new ad hoc property based on the verbal event by which the subject referent is categorized according to contextually salient goals. The post state vs. target...

Post-nominal genitives and prepositional phrases in German: a uniform analysis

Free Variable Economy

Several authors have recently argued that semantic interpretation is subject to economy constraints. In particular, Fox (1999) argued that the interpretation of pronouns is subject to binding economy, which favors local binding over non-local binding. The present paper points out a problem for binding economy. The aim, then, is to see if this problem can be resolved in a conservative way, that ...

Arndt Riester and Stefan Baumann The RefLex Scheme – Annotation Guidelines

The purpose of the RefLex annotation scheme (Baumann and Riester 2012) is the two-dimensional analysis of textual or spoken corpus data with regard to referential information status (including coreference and bridging) as well as lexical information status (semantic relations). We provide some linguisticphilosophical background followed by detailed guidelines, which can be used in combination w...