Classic analyses of propositional attitude reports assume that verbs compose with a clausal argument expresses proposition. I use original fieldwork data to demonstrate Amahuaca (Panoan; Peru) involve high adjunct switch-reference clauses rather than complements an verb. This structure raises issues for the traditionally assumed compositional semantics reports. present two potential do not requ...

The nineteenth western meeting of the Society being the fifty-first regular meeting of the Chicago Section, was held at the University of Chicago on Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, 1923. There were about eighty persons present at this meeting, among them the following sixty members of the Society: Ballantine, E. M. Berry, Bliss, Blumberg, Brahana, Brink, C. C. Camp, Coble, Copenhaver, H. ...

In this paper we compare CP disjunction to TP and conjunction conjunction, conclude that CPs TPs do not have identical meanings (cf. similar observations reported in Szabolcsi 1997, 2016; Bjorkman 2013). We argue result is incompatible with the view layer of embedded clauses semantically vacuous. propose differences between can be explained under a particular implementation Kratzer's approach s...

T he theory of price indexes is usually left to specialists, but when a suspicion that something has gone wrong is coupled with the possibility of large political and fiscal benefits from fixing it, the topic can move into the limelight. I suspect that much of the profession, like me, is now prepared to believe that, in some sense, the rate of growth of the Consumer Price Index likely overstate...