Split Nominal Constructions in Italian MARA FRASCARELLI & FRANCESCA RAMAGLIA

Reanalyzing perfects

Embedded reciprocal equatives in Mandarin and semantic weakening

In this paper I present a novel observation on reciprocal equatives (henceforth, RE) in Mandarin: a reciprocal equative, when embedded under a necessity modal or a predicate of desire, gives rise to an unexpected, at-least-equal-to interpretation (henceforth, ≥-interpretation). I show that the meaning of a modal...

Comitative-based inclusory constructions in Lithuanian and their cross-linguistic background

In this contribution, I examine Lithuanian constructions of the type mes/jūs/jie su X ʻwe/you/they with Xʼ that refer to only two participants. In other words, thereferential scope of the first element encompasses the referential scope of the second. Such constructions are known as inclusory or inclusory pronominal con...

Improving the semantic map of additivity: universal concessive conditionals and indefinite pronouns

Abstract In the present paper, I propose an improvement to the semantic map of additivity by Diana Forker. Additive markers are focus-sensitive operators that trigger the presupposition that the proposition in their scope is satisfied by at least one alternative to the focused element (e.g., English also, too). In many...

Control of clitics in Greek tough -constructions

Greek na -clauses are central to the debate on syntactic control, as they have been claimed to involve obligatory control (when selected by a control predicate) despite inflection on the verb. In this paper, we argue that Greek na -clauses also challenge the common assumption that control can only target the su...

La construcción continuativa en la gramática estructural y funcional

The continuative construction in Spanish shows two structural variants: a clausal one, introduced by a relative pronoun, and a nominal one, consisting of a phrase related to solidarity. This article offers, on the one hand, a syntactic description of the construction in comparison with similar structures, and on the ot...