For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

SFU Linguistics student Rebekah Wong receives kudos from members of the Linguistics community for her work on the effect of bilingualism for the perception of Quantifier raising phenomena for Japanese ...

This paper offers a new unified theory about the meaning of the imperfective and progressive aspects that builds on earlier of analyses in the literature that treat the imperfective as denoting a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Linguistic Inquiry remains one of the most prominent journals in linguistics and consistently is ranked in the top 10 of all ...