Louise McNally
Publications, manuscripts, etc.
Recent work, unpublished manuscripts, slides and publications:
2010, with Boban Arsenijević, Gemma Boleda, and Berit Gehrke. Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives. To appear in the Proceedings of CLS 46. [.pdf]
2010, The relative role of property type and scale structure in explaining the behavior of gradable adjectives. To appear in a volume from the 2009 ESSLLI Workshop on Vagueness in Communication. [.pdf]
2010, with Christopher Kennedy. Color, context, and compositionality. Synthese. [.pdf]
2009, How much vagueness needs resolving? Invited talk at the ESSLLI Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, Bordeaux. [.pdf of slides]
2009, with Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, and Berit Gehrke. Nominalizations and nationality expressions: A corpus analysis. Presented at Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool. [.pdf of slides]
2009, with Berit Gehrke. Frequency adjectives and assertions about event types. To appear in Proceedings of SALT XIX. [.pdf]
2009, with Rafael Marín. Inchoativity, change of state, and telicity. To appear in NLLT. Version dated 9/09 which substitutes earlier papers, with substantial changes. [.pdf]
2009, with M. Teresa Espinal. Bare singular nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan. To appear in the Journal of Linguistics. [.pdf]
2009. Properties, entity correlates of properties, and existentials. Final draft submitted to A. Giannakidou & M. Rathert (eds.), Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization. Oxford University Press, 163-187. [.pdf]
2008. DP-internal only, amount relatives, and relatives out of existentials. Linguistic Inquiry 39: 161-169. [.pdf]
2008. Existential sentences. Revised version, to appear in C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger & P. Portner, (eds). Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin: de Gruyter. [.pdf]
2005, with Christopher Kennedy. The Syntax and Semantics of Multiple Degree Modification in English. S. Müller, ed., The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 178-191, available online here.
2005, with Christopher Kennedy. Degree vs. manner well: A case study in selective binding. Heavily revised version of the earlier ms. with the same title, to appear in a volume of papers ed. by Pierrette Bouillon, et al. Final draft, 04/06 [.pdf].
1998, with Veerle Van Geenhoven. Redefining the weak/strong distinction. Expanded version of a paper presented at the 1997 Paris Syntax and Semantics Colloquium. [.pdf]
Books:
2008, edited with Christopher Kennedy. Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Available here.
1998, edited with Peter Culicover. Syntax and Semantics, Volume 29: The Limits of Syntax, Academic Press, New York.
1997 A Semantics for the English Existential Construction. Garland Press, New York (Revised version of my 1992 University of California, Santa Cruz, Ph.D. dissertation). [.pdf 1, .pdf 2, .pdf 3, .pdf 4]
Articles in journals and edited volumes:
2006, Lexical representation and modification within the noun phrase. Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 34, 191-206, special number ed. by P. Cabredo-Hofherr and O. Matushansky. [.rtf]
2005, with Christopher Kennedy. Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates. Language 81, 345-381. Final ms. version, 11/04 [.pdf]
2005, with Veerle Van Geenhoven. On the property analysis of opaque complements. Lingua 115, 885-914. [.pdf]
2004, Bare plurals in Spanish are interpreted as properties. Slightly revised and corrected version of the paper that originally appeared in 1995 in G. Morrill and R. Oehrle (eds.), Formal Grammar, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, 197-212. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 3, 115-133. [.rtf] (NB: contains some typos)
2004, with Gemma Boleda Torrent. Relational adjectives as properties of kinds. In O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5, 179-196. [available online here]
1999, with Christopher Kennedy. Deriving the Scalar Structure of Deverbal Adjectives. Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics 7, 125-139.
1999 Review of A. Szabolcsi, ed. Ways of Scope Taking. Linguistics and Philosophy 22, 563-571. [.rtf]
1998 Existential Sentences without Existential Quantification. Linguistics and Philosophy 21, 353-392. [.pdf]
1998 Stativity and Theticity. In S. Rothstein (ed.) Events and Grammar, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 293-307. [.rtf]
1998 Towards a Theory of the Linguistic Coding of Information Packaging Instructions. In P. Culicover and L. McNally (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Volume 29: The Limits of Syntax, Academic Press, New York, 161-183. [.rtf]
1998 On Recent Formal Analyses of Topic. In J. Ginzburg, Z. Khasidashvili, C. Vogel, J.J. Lévy, and E. Vallduví (eds.), The Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and Computation: Selected Papers, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 147-160. [.pdf]
1993 Comitative Coordination: A Case Study in Group Formation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 11, 347-379.
1992 VP-Coordination and the VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis. Linguistic Inquiry, 23, 336-341.
Other conference proceedings:
2001, with Christopher Kennedy. Degree vs. Manner well: A Case Study in Selective Binding. In P. Bouillon and K. Kanzaki (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. Reprinted 2002 in M.J. Arche, et al., (eds.) Cuadernos de Lingüística IX: In Memorium Ken Hale, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, 159-166.
1999, with Christopher Kennedy. From Event Structure to Scale Structure: Degree Modification in Deverbal Adjectives. In Matthews, Tanya and Devon Strolovitch (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 9, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY, 163-180. [.pdf]
1997 A Gricean Analysis of Existential Sentences Containing Definite NPs, in Pere Guàrdia and John Stone (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International AEDEAN Conference, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 233-238.
1994 Adjunct Predicates and the Individual/Stage Distinction. In D. Farkas, P. Spaelti and E. Duncan (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 12, 561-76. [.pdf]
1991 Multiplanar Reduplication: Evidence from Sesotho. In A. Halpern (ed.), Proceedings of WCCFL 9, 331-46.
1989 Prosody and Morphology in German Compounding. In J. Powers and K. de Jong (eds.), Proceedings of ESCOL V, 326-337.