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Snippetssnippets snippetssnippets Issue 37 - December 2019 Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland Contents 1. Andreea C. Nicolae, Patrick D. Elliott, and Yasutada Sudo Introduction ................................................... ..................1 2. DorothyAhn ASL IX to locus as a modifier ................................................... ..2 3. Artemis Alexiadou Decomposing scalar approximatives in Greek ......................................4 4. Anna Alsop, Lucas Champollion, and Ioana Grosu A problem for Fox’s (2007) account of free choice disjunction ........................7 5. Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner Quantifier irgendein and local implicature ........................................10 6. Jonathan David Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand Fake indexicals, binding, and the PCC ............................................13 7. Brian Buccola and Emmanuel Chemla Alternatives of disjunctions: when a disjunct contains the antecedent of a pronoun ....16 8. LukaCrnicˇ and Brian Buccola Scoping NPIs out of DPs ................................................... .....19 9. Chris Cummins Some contexts requiring precise number meanings .................................22 10. Patrick D. Elliott and Paul Marty Exactly one theory of multiplicity inferences .......................................24 11. Anamaria Fal˘ au¸sand˘ Andreea C. Nicolae Two coordinating particles are better than one: free choice items in Romanian ........27 12. DannyFox Individual concepts and narrow scope illusions ....................................30 13. DannyFox Degree concepts and narrow scope illusions .......................................33 14. Nicole Gotzner Disjunction, conjunction, and exhaustivity.........................................35 15. Martin Hackl On Haddock’s puzzle and the role of presupposition in reference resolution ...........37 16. Andreas Haida Symmetry, density, and formal alternatives ........................................40 17. Nina Haslinger and Viola Schmitt Strengthened disjunction or non-classical conjunction? .............................43 18. Fabian Heck and Anke Himmelreich Two observations about reconstruction............................................46 19. Aron Hirsch Modal adverbs and constraints on type-flexibility ..................................49 20. Natalia Ivlieva and Alexander Podobryaev On variable agreement and scope reconstruction in Russian ........................52 21. Hadil Karawani The past is rewritten ................................................... .........54 22. Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi Persian ezafe and proportional quantifiers ........................................56 23. Paul Marty Maximize Presupposition! and presupposition satisfaction ..........................59 24. Lisa Matthewson, Sihwei Chen, Marianne Huijsmans, Marcin Morzycki, Daniel Reisinger, and Hotze Rullmann Restricting the English past tense.................................................61 25. Clemens Mayr On a seemingly nonexistent cumulative reading ....................................65 26. Marie-Christine Meyer Scalar Implicatures in complex contexts ...........................................67 27. Moreno Mitrovic´ Null disjunction in disguise ................................................... ...70 28. Andreea C. Nicolae and Yasutada Sudo The exhaustive relevance of complex conjunctions..................................72 29. Rick Nouwen Scalar vagueness regulation and locative reference.................................75 30. Robert Pasternak Unifying partitive and adjective-modifying percent.................................77 31. Hazel Pearson and Frank Sode ‘Not in my wildest dreams’: a part time minimizer? ................................80 32. Orin Percus Uli and our generation: some reminiscences.......................................82 33. Jacopo Romoli Why them? ................................................... ..................84 34. Fabienne Salfner The rise and fall of non-conservatives.............................................87 35. Petra B. Schumacher Vagueness and context-sensitivity of absolute gradable adjectives....................90 36. Stephanie Solt More or less an approximator ................................................... .93 37. Giorgos Spathas Plural anaphoric reference and non-conservativity .................................95 38. Benjamin Spector An argument for the trivalent approach to presupposition projection .................97 39. Bob van Tiel ‘The case against fuzzy logic revisited’ revisited ..................................100 40. LynTieu A developmental asymmetry between the singular and plural .......................103 41. TueTrinh A tense question ................................................... ............106 42. Hubert Truckenbrodt On remind-me presuppositions and embedded question acts........................108 43. Michael Wagner Disjuncts must be mutually excludable ...........................................111 44. E. Cameron Wilson Constraints on non-conservative readings in English ..............................114 45. Susi Wurmbrand Indexical shift meets ECM ................................................... ...117 ISSN 1590-1807 Published in Led on Line - Electronic Archive by LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto - Milano - Italy https://www.ledonline.it December 2019 Copyright The works included in Snippets are the property of their authors and are used by permission. Readers must apply the same principles of fair use to the works in this electronic archive that they would to a printed archive. 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Elliott, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Yasutada Sudo, University College London Editors Sam Alxatib, Graduate Center, City University of New York Isaac Gould, Ewha Womans University Orin Percus, Université de Nantes Review Board Simon Charlow (Rutgers University), Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus), Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore), Ilaria Frana (Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”), Daniel Gutzmann (University of Cologne), Laura Kalin (Princeton University), Peter Klecha (Swarthmore College), Marie-Christine Meyer (Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Neil Myler (Boston University), Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University), Yasutada Sudo (University College London), Ayaka Sugawara (Waseda University), Gary Thoms (New York University), Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Santa Cruz), Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh), Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London), Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California), Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University). Note: Submissions to this issue were reviewed anonymously by contributors to the issue. The guest editors would like to thank them for their help, as well as Sam Alxatib, Cory Bill, Winfried Lechner, Guillermo del Pinal, Jack Tomlinson, and Kazuko Yatsushiro. Email: [email protected] iv Editorial Statement 1. Purpose The aim of Snippets is to publish specific remarks that motivate research or that make theoretical points germane to current work. The ideal contribution is brief, self-contained and explicit. One encounters short comments of this kind in earlier literature in linguistics. We feel that there no longer is a forum for them. We want Snippets to help fill that gap. 2. Content We will publish notes that contribute to the study of syntax and semantics in generative grammar. The notes are to be brief, self-contained and explicit. 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The earliest Linguistic Inquiry squibs exemplify the kind of remark we would like to publish. Some of them posed unobserved puzzles. For instance, a squib by Postal and Ross in Linguis- tic Inquiry 1:1 (“A Problem of Adverb Preposing”) noted that whether or not we can construe a sentence-initial temporal adverb with an embedded verb depends on the tense of the matrix verb. A squib by Perlmutter and Ross in LI 1:3 (“Relative Clauses with Split Antecedents”), challenging the prevailing analyses of coordination and extraposition, noted that conjoined clauses, neither of which contains a plural noun phrase, can appear next to an “extraposed” relative
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