Category Archives: Publications

‘Might’ Made Right, At Last

Posted on July 27, 2007 by kvf

Thony Gillies and I have finally finished the overdue draft of our indeterminacy proposal about the semantics and pragmatics of the epistemic modal might: “Might Made Right”. Check it out and please give us feedback. We’re told the very final … Continue reading →

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Universals in Semantics

Posted on July 16, 2007 by kvf

There is a special issue of The Linguistic Review in the works, with a set of invited papers on the topic of universals from the perspective of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Lisa Matthewson and I just finished the manuscript … Continue reading →

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Anatomy Article Appeared

Posted on July 14, 2007 by kvf

“Anatomy of a Modal Construction”, an article I wrote with Sabine Iatridou has now appeared in Linguistic Inquiry. The future-proof link is doi:10.1162/ling.2007.38.3.445. Thanks to the MIT Copyright Amendment Form, I can post the final version of the article here.

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Paper Title for Dummies (and My Thesis)

Posted on February 11, 2007 by kvf

Two quick notes: The paper that Thony Gillies and I wrote for the second volume of the Oxford Studies in Epistemology has a new title. It used to be called “Epistemic Modality for Dummies”. But under pressure from the editors, … Continue reading →

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