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Query:	Compositional Semantics - 'So,' 'So ADJ That'
Author:	Katy McKinney-Bock
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Semantics
Summary:	This post is a summary of responses for query 19.1242, regarding the recent literature of compositional semantics of 'so' or 'so ADJ that' on April 10. I would like to thank (in order of response) Ora Matushansky and Elena Castroviejo Miró for their responses to my post. The following references were suggested: Castroviejo, E. 2006. A degree-based account of Wh-exclamatives. In Puig-Waldmüller, E. (ed.) Proceedings of the 11th Sinn und Bedeutung, September 23 2006, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. (Her full dissertation can be found on the Semantics Archive, http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mU5NDRmM/wh-exclamatives-in-Catalan.pdf) Meier, C. 2001. Multihead comparatives and result clause constructions with split antecedents. In C. Fand W. Sternefeld, eds., Audiatur Vox Sapientia. A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. Studia Grammatica. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Meier, Cécile. 2003. The meaning of too, enough and so...that. Natural Language Semantics 11.69-107. Umbach, Carla. The role of so in German equative comparison. Syntax and Semantics Conference CSSP, Paris, October 2007. (The handout is available on her website: http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/%7Ecumbach/research.html) Cheers, Katy McKinney-Bock

LL Issue:	19.1414
Date Posted:	26-Apr-2008
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