Roger Schwarzschild
Professor of Linguistics
Rutgers University
The Semantics of Comparatives and other Degree Constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass
2.2:308–331 (2008)
The Role of Dimensions in the Syntax of Noun Phrases
Syntax
9.1:67-110 (2006)
Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjective
Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes,
35
:
207-228
L'adjectif
(2005)
Focus Interpretations: Comments on Geurts and van der Sandt(2004)
Theoretical Linguistics
30
.1:137-47 (2004)
(this paper along with several other responses to a target article by Geurts and van der Sandt can be found on Bart
Geurt
's webpage)
Singleton Indefinites
Journal of Semantics,
19.3
(2002)
Quantifiers in Comparatives: A Semantics of Degree based on Intervals
(with Karina Wilkinson)
Natural Language Semantics
,
10
:1-41, 2002
Review of Winter (1998) Flexible Boolean Semantics: Coordination, Plurality and Scope in Natural Language.
Glot International Vol 5, No. 4, 2001
GIVENness, Avoid F and other Constraints on the Placement of Focus
,
Natural Language Semantics
, 7(2): 141-177, 1999 (
abstract
)
Pluralities
, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
Plurals, Presuppositions and the Sources of Distributivity
,
Natural Language Semantics
2, 201-248, 1994
Types of Plural Individuals
.
Linguistics and Philosophy
15.6, 641-675, 1992.
The Syntax of 'aSer in Biblical Hebrew with special Reference to Qoheleth
.
Hebrew Studies
31, 7-39, 1990.
Manuscripts
Scope Splitting in the Comparative
Colloquium at MIT Oct 15, 2004
Intervals in the Semantics of Gradable Adjectives
April 24, 2001
This is a simplified version of the analysis in "Quantifiers in Comparatives" with some additional arguments for the point of view taken there.
Interpreting Accent
ms December 13, 1997
Why Some Foci Must Associate
1997, ms (
abstract
)
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