Table of Contents
K LAUS A BELS
The swamp construction

1

P ETER A LRENGA
21
Emphatic vs. Exclusive Modification by Single: A Unified Approach
A NA B ESSERMAN AND E LSI K AISER
37
The discourse status of existential implicit arguments: Investigatingreferent accessibility through sluicing
S HERRY YONG C HEN
Zero degrees: numerosity, intensification, and negative polarity

53

Y I -H SUN C HEN
On the morpho-semantic puzzle of superlative modifiers

69

A NIELLO D E S ANTO AND J ONATHAN R AWSKI AND A MANDA M.
85
YAZDANI AND J OHN E. D RURY
Quantified Sentences as a Window into Prediction and Priming: AnERP Study
S AÚL F ERNÁNDEZ G ONZÁLEZ AND J ONATHAN P ESETSKY
Suppose Epistemic Contradictions Might Not Be Contradictions

99

V ERA G OR AND K RISTEN S YRETT
109
Beyond Principle C: (Not)-at-issueness and plausibility influence
acceptability of coconstrual
T HOMAS G RANO
Belief, intention, and the grammar of persuasion

125

J EFFREY J. G REEN
Non-subject control of temporal adjuncts

137

J ESSE A. H ARRIS AND NATASHA KOROTKOVA
149
Preference for single events guides perception in Russian: Aphonemic restoration study
M ELANIE H OBICH
A diachronic perspective on was für165

G IANINA I ORDĂCHIOAIAEnglish deverbal compounds with and without arguments

179

T ORU I SHII
On Multiple Right-Dislocation in Japanese195

M ARJU K APS
Licensing SOV in Estonian: A Naturalness Rating Study

211

A NNIKA KOHRT AND T REY S ORENSEN AND D USTIN A. C HACÓN
225
The Real-Time Status of Semantic Exceptions to the Adjunct IslandConstraint
M ARIA KOUNELI
Determiner Spreading and modification in Kipsigis

237

AUSTIN K RAFT AND J ONATHON C OLTZ AND D USTIN A. C HACÓN
253
Testing the real-time status of covert movement of wh-operators andQPs in English
A NG L I

261
On the semantics of verbal classifiers

M INGYA L IU
Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning

271

Q IONGPENG L UO AND Y UZHEN C AO
283
Equatives Are Not All Equal: A Correlative Analysis of Scalar
Equatives in Mandarin
G ABRIEL M ARTÍNEZ V ERA
295
Bringing degree achievements and creation predicates together:
Evidence from Southern Aymara
T ERUYUKI M IZUNO AND S TEFAN K AUFMANN
Past-as-Past in Japanese counterfactuals

309H ANA M ÖLLER K ALPAK
Sortal versus relational nouns in concealed questions

325

M ARCIN M ORZYCKI
Semantic Viruses and Multiple Superlatives341

M ORGAN M OYER AND K RISTEN S YRETT
361
Contextual, Lexical and Structural Factors Licensing Mention-SomeEmbedded Questions
B ILGE PALAZ
377
Towards a Unified Account of Clausal Ellipsis in Turkish: A NonMovement Analysis
A NDREAS PANKAU
Pseudo wh-copying as wh-slifting

393

I LEANA PAUL AND L ISA DE M ENA T RAVIS
409
Augmented pronoun constructions in Malagasy across time andspaceA NISIA P OPESCU
Syllable-count judgments:
syllable weight425
relating gestural composition andE RIC P OTSDAM
Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction

435

R ACHEL RUDOLPH
The Acquaintance inference with seem-reports

451

H IROAKI S AITO
Grammaticalization and the Root & Category Theory461

V ESELA S IMEONOVA
Flavors of predicate modification

477

A BDUL -R AZAK S ULEMANA
PRO as a Partial Copy: a movement-based account of Control

493

Y UTA TATSUMI
Excorporation and V-V compound ellipsis in Japanese503

L UCIA M. T OVENA AND M ARA PANAITESCU
Ratios as distributive relations over matching events

519

A NDREAS T ROTZKEApproaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally527

M ICHAEL W ILSON
541
The Dative Illusion as an Argument for Lexicalist Argument
Structure
A LEXANDER W IMMERParadoxical desires: on counterfactually inflecting wünschen

557

DANFENG W U
573
Evidence from ellipsis suggests the low origination site of expletives
there and it
S USI W URMBRAND
Cross-clausal A-dependencies

585

A NQI Z HANG
Transitive-Intransitive Alternations in Japanese605

B ORUI Z HANG
Sluicing-like Construction in Kathmandu Newari

617