Vol. 30 (2026): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30

Articles

• Foreword

  Sebastian Walter, Lennart Fritzsche, Kurt Erbach, Cécile Meier, Manfred Sailer

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• Can negative sentences express events? Evidence from a rating study

  Elena Albu, Barbara Kaup

  1-17

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• Pied-piping in the composition of degrees

  Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Bernhard Schwarz

  18-34

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• On the QUD sensitivity of a Third reading

  Yurika Aonuki, Kathryn Davidson

  35-52

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• Interpreting negation under 'yiqian' 'before' in Mandarin Chinese

  Mingyang Bian

  53-69

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• Quasi-names in Akan: A further piece of the definiteness puzzle

  Carla Bombi, Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur

  70-87

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• Double access and the semantics of attitude and speech reports

  Daniel Büring

  88-102

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• Pseudo-depictive predicates as event-kind modifiers

  Frauke Buscher-Schiewe

  103-120

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• On 'certainly'

  Samuel Wolf Cantor

  121-137

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• Ignorance inferences in the presence of presuppositions

  Keny Chatain

  138-155

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• A causal model account of the Volitionality-Zero Result correlation

  Mingjiang Chen

  156-173

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• Encoding speaker bias: The semantics of 'wh'-polar questions

  Youngdong Cho

  174-191

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• The semantics of '-ki' in Korean: Priority and beyond priority

  Mingyeong Choi

  192-204

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• Sowieso ≠ so oder so

  Berry Claus, Felix Frühauf, Sophia Döring, Julian A. Rott

  205-220

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• A cover analysis of the plural classifier in Hmong

  Quartz Colvin

  221-231

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• Unifying mereological and arithmetic division

  Elizabeth Coppock

  232-248

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• Recycling spatial representations for temporal interpretations: Korean verb compounding constructions

  Vincent Czarnecki, Dorothy Ahn

  249-267

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• Finding objects of experiences

  Furkan Dikmen

  268-283

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• Lexical demonstrations and word classes in German Sign Language (DGS)

  Thomas A. Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister, Markus Steinbach, Patrick C. Trettenbrein

  284-300

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• Capturing degree uses of 'even'

  Naomi Francis

  301-314

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• The FLING gesture as a marker of discourse status

  Naomi Francis, Patrick Georg Grosz, Prity Patel-Grosz

  315-329

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• The German discourse particles 'JA' and 'ruhig'

  Felix Frühauf

  330-346

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• Belief, intention and eventuality abstraction in the non-finite domain

  Achille Fusco, Tommaso Sgrizzi

  347-365

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• A source-based ambiguity for 'believe'

  Jon Gajewski

  366-381

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• The importance of having a degree: On the semantics of attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS

  Berit Gehrke, Predrag Kovačević, Marko Simonović

  382-399

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• Event counting and discontinuity of the experiential perfect

  Yiyang Guo

  400-415

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• A formal semantic analysis of Spanish quantifier prefixes 'multi'- and 'pluri'-

  Rafael Gutiérrez

  416-430

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• Revisiting the context-update potential of negation at the level of speaker utterance choice

  Muxuan He, Deniz Rudin, Elsi Kaiser

  431-447

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• Covert operators are picked to minimize QuD-Ambiguity: The view from 'pex' and 'only'

  Adèle Hénot-Mortier

  448-464

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• The relation between Negative Polarity and Negative Concord

  Elena Herburger

  465-482

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• Experimental evidence for negativity without negation

  Lisa Hofmann

  483-499

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• When evidentiality meets deonticity: A case study of Nuosu Yi 'di'31/44 & 'zo'44

  Yaqing Hu, Ariela Ye

  500-516

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• Perspectives on possibility modals

  Magdalena Kaufmann

  517-534

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• Aspectual specificity and the scope of negation: Evidence from Slavic

  Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson

  535-553

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• Cognitive bias approach to the acquisition of disjunction

  Tomasz Klochowicz, Giorgio Sbardolini, Maria Aloni

  554-571

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• On focus and the perfect aspect

  Emily Knick, Eli Sharf

  572-589

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• Two lives for numerals: Evidence from Javanese

  Austin Kraft

  590-603

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• Anaphora for concepts, kinds, and parts in dynamic interpretation

  Manfred Krifka

  604-621

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• The semantics and pragmatics of demonstrational 'like': A two-tiered approach

  Jooyoung Lee

  622-636

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• A new view on NAmE high negated questions: Experimental evidence and analysis

  Seo-young Lee

  637-654

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• Oddness and probability-sensitivity of number-marked indefinites in negation and questions

  Haoming Li, Yizhen Jiang

  655-667

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• Passamaquoddy quantifiers: Outlier of distributivity-number generalization?

  Haoming Li, J. Cooper Roberts, Yizhen Jiang

  668-678

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• The (in)felicity of a dog 'or' a reindeer. On the interpretation and processing of ignorance and scalar inferences triggered by disjunction

  Federica Longo, Daniele Panizza, Greta Mazzaggio, Bob van Tiel

  679-696

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• Not every quantifier can be negated

  Andy Lücking, Leon Hammerla, Alexander Mehler

  697-714

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• The emergence of "weak" definite articles

  Giuseppe Magistro, Alexandra Simonenko

  715-727

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• Denials as a window into semantic and world knowledge violations

  Claudia Maienborn, Frauke Buscher-Schiewe, Carolin Dudschig, Barbara Kaup

  728-743

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• Quantifying presupposition projection

  Paul Marty, Patrick D. Elliott, Alexandros Kalomoiros, Jacopo Romoli

  744-761

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• Upper limit effects in DPs and the interdependence of worlds and times

  Paul Meisenbichler

  762-778

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• Modal perspectives on counter-expectational 'but'

  Flavia Naehrlich, David Müller

  779-796

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• Dependent modals

  Takanobu Nakamura

  797-814

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• A unified analysis of concessive conditionals and unconditionals

  Kimiko Nakanishi

  815-832

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• Greek directive subjunctive questions, high negation bias and modality

  Despina Oikonomou

  833-851

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• The unbearable simplicity of being something

  Edgar Onea, Ivona Kučerová

  852-869

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• On the semantics of the response item 'that’s right'

  David Y. Oshima

  870-887

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• The illusion of kind predication

  Tom Ralston

  888-905

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• Modally interpreted relative clauses in Spanish: The role of mood

  Maribel Romero

  906-923

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• An existential semantics for over-informative attitudinal embedding in film

  Mats Rooth, Dorit Abusch

  924-941

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• The shared core of memory predicates is non-novel knowledge

  Emil Eva Rosina

  942-956

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• Proximity in endophoric demonstratives

  E.G. Ruys

  957-973

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• Perspective shift in speech and thought event reports: A mixed-quotation analysis of indirect discourse

  Christopher Saure, Stefan Hinterwimmer

  974-991

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• Negative Polarity, presuppositions, and the Harmony hypothesis

  Giorgio Sbardolini

  992-1006

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• Future/epistemic ambiguities as height-relativity: Evidence from Gujarati

  Malhaar Shah

  1007-1022

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• Circumstantial possibility with degrees: The case of German 'bar'-adjectives

  Frank Sode, Sarah Zobel

  1023-1040

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• Obligatory speaker-oriented rhetoricality: The case of Cantonese 'me'↓-utterances

  Yingyu Su

  1041-1055

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• Gradable abstract nouns and eventualities

  Peter R. Sutton

  1056-1073

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• A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese

  Jun Tamura

  1074-1086

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• Temporal connectives and differential arguments in Japanese

  Yuta Tatsumi

  1087-1098

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• Beyond categorical handshapes: Iconicity and role-shift in entity classifier predicates in Hong Kong Sign Language

  Vanessa Wing Yan Tsang, Markus Steinbach, Gladys Tang, Yiu Leung Aaron Wang

  1099-1116

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• Revisiting sign language classifiers: (How) do classifiers classify?

  Sybil Vachaudez, Semantha Prins, Juan Sian Ajsivinac, Carlo Geraci, Robert Henderson, Jeremy Kuhn

  1117-1134

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• A structurally uniform account of slur-based definites

  Giuseppe Varaschin, Antonio Machicao y Priemer

  1135-1152

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• Evaluating theories on 'de re' presuppositions

  Yaxuan Wang

  1153-1169

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• Presupposition filtering in disjunction: The role of exclusive interpretation

  Yiqian Wang, Kathryn Davidson

  1170-1187

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• Conditionality without 'if' : Conditional marking strategies in Mandarin

  Xuetong Yuan

  1188-1205

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• Imperative-or-declarative and practical triviality

  Yichi (Raven) Zhang

  1206-1223

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• The most descriptive depiction

  Ying Zhang, Dorothy Ahn

  1224-1241

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