Most studies of the so-called Proportion Problem seek to understand how lexical and structural properties of sentences containing adverbial quanti ers give rise to various proportional readings. This paper explores a related but distinct problem: given a use of a particular sentence in context, why do only some of the expected proportional readings seem to be available? That is, why do some sen...

This paper argues that the dative beneficiary in Turkish has been incorrectly identified as a high applicative structure. While datives are felicitous with certain unergative and stative verbs, they show semantic restrictions unexpected on analysis. I argue instead two types: low (contra Tonyalı 2015a,b), relating applied argument to theme possessor, affected (Cuervo 2003), state of beneficiary...

This paper focuses on subject distribution in Greek and Chilean Spanish, both null languages, as evidenced the oral production of monolingual bilingual speakers. Narratives elicited from 40 monolinguals 76 bilinguals different types, namely, first- generation immigrants, heritage speakers, L2 were analysed quantitatively qualitatively to explore potential differences expressing reference betwee...

Abstract Inspired by this felicitous, highly concentrated and rather exhaustive review of a rapidly growing field, many larger research areas that warrant further investigation come to mind. In comment, three are selected: fully satisfactory PCA on tori polyspheres, harnessing linearity through Lie algebras underlying homogeneous spaces such as those for directional data, statistical analysis b...

Previous research has shown that certain discourse conditions are necessary for the felicitous use of non-canonical syntactic forms like topicalization, left-dislocation, and clefts. However, the distribution of these forms does not correlate one-to-one with the presence of these conditions, and a system that generates these statisticallyrare forms based only on these conditions will overgenera...

Using Heijenoort’s unpublished generalized rules of quantification, we discuss the proof of Herbrand’s Fundamental Theorem in the form of Heijenoort’s correction of Herbrand’s “False Lemma” and present a didactic example. Although we are mainly concerned with the inner structure of Herbrand’s Fundamental Theorem and the questions of its quality and its depth, we also discuss the outer questions...

When humans communicate via natural language, they frequently make use of metalanguage to clarify what they mean and promote a felicitous exchange of ideas. One key aspect of metalanguage is the mention of words and phrases, as distinguished from their use. This paper presents ongoing work on identifying and categorizing instances of languagemention, with the goal of building a system capable o...

The paper discusses the role of speech in the generation of psychosis. The traditional phenomenological approach describes schizophrenic speech as desocialized, autistic and destructive. Based on 'Speech Act Theory', we argue that patients in an acute psychotic state assign maximal illocutionary force to their utterances and mark these speech acts as felicitous. We hypothesize that the pragmati...

In this paper we show how information structure affects the text coherence for before/after-sentences in a discourse. We analyse information structure with respect to the question of how information is presented on the sentence level and how the presented information can be connected to the preceding discourse. In particular, we raise the question of when a preposed temporal clause is felicitou...