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MIT.EDU>The Interpretive Tract: Working Papers in Syntax and Semantics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics v.25. Edited by Uli Sauerland and Orin Percus. April 1998. 295 pages. $12. Website: http://broca.mit.edu/mitwpl.web/WPL-volumes-files/wpl25.html This volume is about the interpretive component of the grammar. It is about how the form of sentences relates to their informational contribution and to their conditions of use. Accordingly, the papers here try to pinpoint aspects of the meaning of sentences, to draw connections between these aspects of meaning and material present at syntactic structure, and to ask how we get one from the other. The papers here were written over the past five years. Interest in semantics coalesced and intensified during these years at MIT; we are especially happy to publish these papers now, in the first year of the new PhD program specializing in semantics. Contents Subject Specificity, Copy Theory, and Extended Mapping Hypothesis Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai 1-28 The Presupposition of Subjunctive Conditionals Kai von Fintel 29-44 Presupposition Denial and the Origins of Antecedents Orin Percus 45-64 Quantification in Agrammatic Aphasia William Philip and Sergey Avrutin 63-72 Negation and Object Shift in Early Child Korean Judy Yoo-Kyung Baek 73-86 Spanish N-Words: Ambivalent Behavior or Ambivalent Nature Elena Herburger 87-102 Complementation and Interpretation: The Concrete and Imaginative Readings of Visual Perception Verbs Marie Claude Boivin 103-123 On the Aspectual Properties of English Derived Nominals William Snyder 125-139 Downsizing Infinitives Susi Wurmbrand 141-175 Plurals, Derived Predicates and Reciprocals Uli Sauerland 177-204 Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation: A Reinterpretation of Reinhart's Approach Irene Heim 205-246 Movement and Derived Predicates: Evidence from Parasitic Gaps Jon Nissenbaum 247-295Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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