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Deriving polarity from granularity

Julie Goncharov and Lavi Wolf

2021

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Les Implicatures

Claire Beyssade

2020

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Building complex events The case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction

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Fabio Del Prete & Giuseppina Todaro

2020

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Causation and dispositions: Towards a semantic characterization of the French causative verb laisser

Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy, and Klaus von Heusinger

2020

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Contextualising Generic and Universal Generalisations: Quantifier Domain Restriction and the Generic Overgeneralisation Effect.

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Stockall, L., & Katsos, N.

2019

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Truth is dead; long live the Truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski

Gillian Ramchand

2019

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Force dynamics

Bridget Copley

2019

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Situations and Syntactic Structures

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Gillian Ramchand

2018

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Dispositional causation

Bridget Copley

2018

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Ingredients of Instrumental Meaning

Lilia Rissman and Kyle Rawlins

2017

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