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JOURNAL of SEMANTICS Volume 14 (1997) JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS Volume 14 (1997) CONTENTS Articles Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jos/issue/14/4 by guest on 30 September 2021 JAY DAVID ATLAS Negative Adverbials, Prototypical Negation and the De Morgan Taxonomy . 349 ANDREA BONOMI The Progressive and the Structure of Events 173 KAI VON FINTEL Bare Plurals, Bare Conditionals, and only 1 BART GUERTS Good News about the Description Theory of Names 319 ALFONS MAES Referent Ontology and Centering in Discourse 207 RANI NELKEN AND NISSIM FRANCEZ The Analogy between Nominal and Temporal Anaphora Revisited 369 ALMERINDO E. OJEDA A Semantics for the Counting Numerals of Latin 143 MARGA REIS AND INGER ROSENGREN A Modular Approach to the Grammar of Additive Particles: the Case of German Auch 237 DIETER WUNDERLICH Argument Extension by Lexical Adjunction 95 JOOST ZWARTS Vectors as Relative Positions: A Compositional Semantics of Modified PPs 57 LINGUISTICS an interdisciplinary journal oj the language sciences Editor-in-Chief: Wolfgang Klein, Max-Planck-Institut, Nijmegen, The Netherlands LINGUISTICS was founded in 1963 as an international review and reconstituted under a new Editorial Board in 1979. The journal provides an international Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jos/issue/14/4 by guest on 30 September 2021 and interdisciplinary forum for research in the language sciences. LINGUISTICS publishes articles and short notices in the traditional disciplines of linguistics: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology. 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