This paper offers a compositional semantics for English conditional sentences. The proposal is worked out within the GB/Minimalist approach to the syntax/semantics interface and uses for the interpretation Plural Compositional DRT as introduced by Brasoveanu [2008]. The approach is based on the idea of Bhatt and Pancheva [2006] (among others) that if-clauses are free relatives of possible world...

Many languages allow for ”fake” uses of their past tense marker: the marker can occur in certain contexts without conveying temporal pastness. Instead it appears to bear a modal meaning. Iatridou [2000] has coined this phenomenon Fake Tense. Fake Tense is particularly common to conditional construction. This paper proposes to explain Fake Tense in English conditional sentences as a certain kind...

The paper explores the possibilities of representing the semantics of eventualities in continuation semantics framework. It focuses on providing an analysis for quantification over eventualities and for anaphora to eventualities. We give specific lexical entries for the adverbial quantifiers always and never and for a silent adverbial quantifier we consider responsible for the meaning of expres...

We use imperatives to refute a näıve analysis of update potentials (force-operators attaching to sentences), arguing for a dynamic analysis of imperative force as restrictable, directed, and embeddable. We propose a dynamic, non-modal analysis of conditional imperatives, as a counterpoint to static, modal analyses (e.g., Schwager [16]). Our analysis retains Kratzer’s [8] analysis of if-clauses ...

INTRODUCTION: Contemporary cementing techniques in total hip arthroplasty include the use of a cement restrictor to occlude the intramedullary canal. In the 80 ́s occlusion of the distal intramedullary canal was done with a bone plug or by sealing with bone cement. Today, with the evolvement of biomaterials in Orthopaedic surgery numerous plug designs and materials (non-resorbable, resorbable) a...

In a quantified expression, the possibility of referring to the set-theoretical difference of restrictor and scope is known as complement anaphora (CA). Existing literature suggests two ways of analyzing this phenomenon either as confusion with reference to the maximal set, or as genuine complement reference. This paper will show that resolving an anaphor to the complement set is never a viable...