David Braun, Theodore Sider Noûs, Sylvain Bromberger, Cian Dorr, Delia Graff, Hilary Greaves, ...
According to an old and attractive view, vagueness must be eliminated before semantic notions (truth, implication, and so on) may be applied. This view — call it semantic nihilism — was accepted...
What with? The Anatomy of a (Proto)-Role (2008)
Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Mauner, Gail, Bienvenue, Breton, Conklin, Kathy
This paper describes a comprehensive survey of English verbs that semantically allow or require an Instrument role. It sheds light on the nature of Instrument roles and instrumentality by examining...
Class Specificity And The Lexical Encoding Of Participant Information (2007)
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Gail Mauner, Breton Bienvenue
It is commonly assumed across the language sciences that some semantic participant information is lexically encoded and some is not. In this paper, we propose that semantic obligatoriness and verb...
When is schematic participant information encoded: Evidence from eye-monitoring (2002)
Mauner, Gail, Melinger, Alissa, Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Bienvenue, Breton
Two eye-monitoring studies examined when unexpressed schematic participant information specified by verbs is used during sentence processing. Experiment 1 compared the processing of sentences with...
When is schematic participant information encoded? Evidence from eye-monitoring (2002)
Gail Mauner, Alissa Melinger, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Breton Bienvenue
Two eye-monit##(3 st-mon examined when unexpressedschemats parttssed informated specified by verbs is used duringsentgP( processing.Experiment 1 comparedtm processing ofsentC7VP wit passive and...
A-definites and the discourse status of implicit arguments (1999)
Jean-pierre Koenig, Gail Mauner
This paper focuses on the semantics of implicit arguments and compares it with that of explicit indefinites with which they can be truth-conditionally paraphrased. It is shown that once the...
A-definites and the Discourse Status of Implicit Arguments (1999)
KOENIG, JEAN-PIERRE, MAUNER, GAIL
This paper focuses on the semantics of implicit arguments and compares it with that of explicit indefinites with which they can be truth-conditionally paraphrased. It is shown that once the...