DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Contents of UCLWPL 8 (1996)

Edited by Phillip Backley and John Harris

General

 

Neil Smith & Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli

Modules and quasi-modules: language and theory of mind in a polyglot savant

Semantics and Pragmatics

 

Richard Breheny

Pro-active focus

Robyn Carston

Enrichment and loosening: complementary processes in deriving the proposition expressed

Carmen Curcó

The implicit expression of attitudes, mutual manifestness and verbal humour

Barrie Evans

Event variables and Davidson's program in semantics

Isao Higashimori & Deirdre Wilson

Questions on Relevance

Eun-Ju Noh

A relevance-theoretic account of metarepresentative uses in conditionals

Anna Papafragou

On generics

Villy Rouchota

Discourse connectives: what do they link?

Phonology

 

Phillip Backley & Toyomi Takahashi

Activate alpha: harmony without spreading

Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu & John Maidment

Edge-licensing in chanting contours | Graphics)

John Harris

Phonological output is redundancy-free and fully interpretable

Phil Harrison

An experiment with tone

Krisztina Polgárdi

Constraint ranking, Government Licensing and the fate of final empty nuclei

Syntax

 

Maya Arad

A minimalist view of the syntax-lexical semantics interface

Annabel Cormack & Neil Smith

Checking theory: features, functional heads, and checking-parameters

Richard Hudson

The difficulty of (so-called) self-embedded structures

Hans van de Koot

Strong features, pied-piping and the overt/covert distinction

Christian Kreps

Dependency, licensing and the nature of grammatical relations

Fuyo Osawa

Missing arguments in earlier English clause structures

And Rosta

S-dependency

Yu-Yan Anne Teng

Aspectuals in Cantonese: the case of Saai]

Dimitra Irini Tzanidaki

Configurationality and Greek clause structure