Journal Of: Semantics

VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2011

CONTENTS John Beavers An Aspectual Analysis of Ditransitive Verbs of Caused Possession in English

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Márta Abrusán and Benjamin Spector A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and Their Obviation

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Nathan Klinedinst Quantified Conditionals and Conditional Excluded Middle

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FORTHCOMING ARTICLES Robert van Rooij: Measurement and Interadjective Comparisons David Schueler: World Variable Binding and Beta-Binding Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito: Domain Restrictions, Modal Implicatures and Plurality: Spanish Algunos Ana Arregui: Counterfactual-Style Revisions in the Semantics of Deontic Modals Michela Ippolito: A Note on Embedded Implicatures and Counterfactual Presuppositions

VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2011

Yael Sharvit Covaluation and Unexpected BT Effects

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS

VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2011

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JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS A N I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL FOR THE I NTERDISCIPLINARY S TUDY THE S EMANTICS OF N ATURAL L ANGUAGE MANAGING EDITOR: ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

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Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris; New York University) Danny Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University) Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz) Robert van Rooij (University of Amsterdam) Mats Rooth (Cornell University) Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University) Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers University) Yael Sharvit (University of Connecticut) Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) Anna Szabolcsi (New York University) Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University)

ADVISORY BOARD: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen) Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania) Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Laurence R. Horn (Yale University) Hans Kamp (Stuttgart University and University of Texas, Austin) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University Berlin; ZAS, Berlin)

Beth Levin (Stanford University) Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) François Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris) Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz) Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University) Arnim von Stechow (University of Tübingen) Thomas Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt)

EDITORIAL BOARD: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Pranav Anand (University of California, Santa Cruz) Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa) Nicholas Asher (IRIT, Toulouse; University of Texas, Austin) Chris Barker (New York University) Sigrid Beck (University of Tübingen) Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Maria Bittner (Rutgers University) Peter Bosch (University of Osnabrück) Richard Breheny (University College London) Daniel Büring (University of California, Los Angeles) Emmanuel Chemla (LSCP, Paris) Jill G. de Villiers (Smith College) Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam) Josh Dever (University of Texas, Austin) Regine Eckardt (University of Göttingen) Markus Egg (Humboldt University Berlin) Martina Faller (University of Manchester) Delia Fara (Princeton University) Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz) Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Jon Gajewski (University of Connecticut) Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam) Elena Guerzoni (University of Southern California) Martin Hackl (Pomona College) Pauline Jacobson (Brown University) Andrew Kehler (University of California, San Diego) Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago) Jeffrey C. King (Rutgers University)

Nathan Klinedinst (University College London) Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Peter Lasersohn (University of Illinois) Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) John MacFarlane (University of California, Berkeley) Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) Julien Musolino (Rutgers University) Ira Noveck (L2C2, CNRS, Lyon) Francis Jeffry Pelletier (University of Alberta) Colin Phillips (University of Maryland) Paul M. Pietroski (University of Maryland) Christopher Potts (Stanford University) Liina Pylkkänen (New York University) Gillian C. Ramchand (University of Tromsoe) Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin) Barry Schein (University of Southern California) Benjamin Spector (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris) Robert Stalnaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Jason Stanley (Rutgers University) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Jos van Berkum (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)

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Editorial Policy Scope Journal of Semantics aims to be the premier journal in semantics. It covers all areas in the study of meaning, with a focus on formal and experimental methods. The Journal welcomes submissions on semantics, pragmatics, the syntax/semantics interface, cross-linguistic semantics, experimental studies of meaning (processing, acquisition, neurolinguistics), and semantically informed philosophy of language. Types of articles Journal of Semantics welcomes all types of research articles–with the usual proviso that length must be justified by scientific value. Besides standard articles, the Journal will welcome ‘squibs’, i.e. very short empirical or theoretical contributions that make a pointed argument. In exceptional circumstances, and upon the advice of the head of the Advisory Board, the Journal will publish ‘featured articles’, i.e. pieces that we take to make extraordinary contributions to the field. Editorial decisions within 10 weeks The Journal aims to make editorial decisions within 10 weeks of submission. Refereeing Articles can only be accepted upon the advice of anonymous referees, who are asked to uphold strict scientific standards. Authors may include their names on their manuscripts, but they need not do so. (To avoid conflicts of interest, any manuscript submitted by one of the Editors will be handled by the head of the Advisory Board, who will be responsible for selecting referees and making an editorial decision.) Submissions All submissions are handled electronically. Manuscripts should be emailed in PDF format to the Managing Editor [[email protected]], who will forward them to one of the Editors. The latter will be responsible for selecting referees and making an editorial decision. Receipt of a submission is systematically confirmed. Papers are accepted for review only on the condition that they have neither as a whole nor in part been published elsewhere, are elsewhere under review or have been accepted for publication. In case of any doubt authors must notify the Managing Editor of the relevant circumstances at the time of submission. It is understood that authors accept the copyright conditions stated in the journal if the paper is accepted for publication.

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