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Roger
Schwarzschild
Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus
32-D776
Semantics, morphology

 

 

2022

Pure Event Semantics

2020

The Representation of Focus, Givenness and Exhaustivity  in Rajesh Bhatt, Ilaria Frana, and Paula Menéndez-Benito (eds.), Making Worlds Accessible. Essays in Honor of Angelika Kratzer, doi: 10.7275/w10a-pv24

2020

From Possible Individuals to Scalar Segments  In Peter Hallman (ed.) Interactions of Degree and Quantification, Chapter 7, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 231-270  doi: 10.1163/9789004431515_008

2015

Partitives and Duratives  Theoretical Linguistics 41.3-4:197-209 doi: 10.1515/tl-2015-0013

2013

Degrees and Segments  In Todd Snider (ed.) Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3-5, 2013, 212-238 doi: 10.3765/salt.v23i0.2661

2013

Correlating Cessation with Double Access (with Daniel Altshuler)  In Maria Aloni, Michael Franke and Floris Roelofsen (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, 43-50

2013

Moment of Change, Cessation Implicatures and Simultaneous Readings (with Daniel Altshuler)  In Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer and Grégoire Winterstein (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17,  ENS-Paris September 8-10 2012,  45-62

2012

Directed Scale Segments  In Anca Chereches (ed.) Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18 - May 20, 2012, 65-82 [mostly superseded by "Degrees and Segments" - see above]

2011

Stubborn Distributivity, Multiparticipant Nouns and the Count/Mass Distinction In Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin and Brian Smith (eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39), Volume 2, Amherst, MA: GLSA, 661-678

2010

Definite Inner Antecedents and Wh-Correlates in Sluices (with Veneeta Dayal)  In Peter Staroverov, Daniel Altshuler, Aaron Braver, Carlos A. Fasola and Sarah Murray (eds.) Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 92-114

2010

Comparative Markers and Standard Markers  In Michael Y. Erlewine and Yasutada Sudo (eds.), Proceedings of the MIT Workshop on Comparatives, MITWorking Papers in Linguistics 69, 87-105.

2008

The Semantics of Comparatives and other Degree Constructions  Language and Linguistics Compass 2.2, 308–331 doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00049.x

2006

The Role of Dimensions in the Syntax of Noun Phrases  Syntax 9.1:67-110 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2006.00083.x

2005

Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives  Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 34:207-228

2004

Focus Interpretations: Comments on Geurts and van der Sandt(2004)  Theoretical Linguistics 30.1:137-47 doi: 10.1515/thli.2004.003

2002

Singleton Indefinites  Journal of Semantics 19.3:289-314 doi: 10.1093/jos/19.3.289

2002

Quantifiers in Comparatives: A Semantics of Degree based on Intervals (with Karina Wilkinson)  Natural Language Semantics 10:1-41 doi: 10.1023/A:1015545424775

2001

Review of Winter (1998) Flexible Boolean Semantics: Coordination, Plurality and Scope in Natural Language  Glot International 5.4

1999

GIVENness, Avoid F and other Constraints on the Placement of Focus Natural Language Semantics  7.2:141-177  doi: 10.1023/A:1008370902407

1994

Plurals, Presuppositions and the Sources of Distributivity  Natural Language Semantics 2:201-248 10.1007/BF01256743

1992

Types of Plural Individuals  Linguistics and Philosophy 15.6:641-675 doi: 10.1007/BF00628113

1990

The Syntax of אשר in Biblical Hebrew with special Reference to Qoheleth  Hebrew Studies 31:7-39   jstor.org/stable/27909165

1989

Adverbs of Quantification as Generalized Quantifiers  In Juli Carter and Rose-Marie Déchaine (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 19), Amherst, MA: GLSA, 390‑404 scholarworks.umass.edu/nels/vol19/iss1/27

 

2019

A Course in Semantics (with Daniel Altshuler and Terry Parsons) MIT Press textbook

1996

Pluralities, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 61) Kluwer Academic Publishers doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-2704-4