This chapter reviews the theoretical and conceptual issues central to acceptability judgment tasks, and related paradigms, at the syntax-semantics interface, and provides a broad overview of core results obtained from research in this domain. …
Previous studies have observed a tendency to associate the remnant (e.g., who) of ambiguous sluicing ellipsis with the closest/most local correlate (someone) in the matrix clause, as in Somebody said Fred fired someone, but I don’t know who. I …
This paper explores the semantics of else when it modifies a bare quantifier, as in someone else, or a wh-phrase, as in who else. I argue that else triggers the presupposition that there is a contextually salient witness, which is removed from the …
We report a series of sentence-rating experiments designed to test the recent claim that pied-piping of PPs in English is an instance of 'massive pied-piping' (Heck 2008, Cable 2010). We find that the relatively subtle judgments informally reported …