Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 7 is a collection of selected papers presented at CSSP 2007.

Table of contents

Lobke Aelbrecht Dutch modal complement ellipsis, 7

Ana Arregui Resolving similarity in embedded contexts, 35

Elena Castroviejo Miró Adverbs in restricted configurations, 53

Jinyoung Choi & Maribel Romero Rescuing existential free choice items in episodic sentences, 77

Guglielmo Cinque Two types of non-restrictive relatives, 99

Denis Creissels Remarks on split intransitivity and fluid intransitivity, 139

Laurence R. Horn "I love me some him": The landscape of non-argument datives, 169

Gianina Iordachioaia & Elena Soare Two kinds of event plurals: Evidence from Romanian nominalizations, 193

Jacques Jayez & Lucia M. Tovena Presque and almost: How argumentation derives from comparative meaning, 217

Jean-Pierre Koenig & Lian-Cheng Chief Scalarity and state-changes in Mandarin (and other languages), 241

Sveta Krasikova Comparison in Chinese, 263

Yusuke Kubota Solving the morpho-syntactic puzzle of the Japanese -te form complex predicate: A Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar analysis, 283

Gabriela Matos & Ana Brito Comparative clauses and cross linguistic variation: A syntactic approach, 307

Uli Sauerland Pseudo-sloppy readings in flat binding, 331

Martin Schäfer Resolving scope in manner modification, 351

Tatjana Scheffler Relevance conditionals as utterance modifying adverbials, 373

Sergei Tatevosov Subeventual structure and non-culmination, 393

Robert van Rooij Comparatives and quantifiers, 423