Luis Alonso-Ovalle
OR UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS.
WHAT IS SEMANTICS ALL ABOUT?
1Bill Ladusaw on semantics
2Partee: Is this a good time for formal semantics?
3Richmond H. Thomason's answer
RESOURCES
1eLanguage
2Gesellschaft fuer Semantik
3McGill Linguistics
4McLing
5semanticsarchive.net
6UMass Linguistics
VARIA
7Diego
8Sandy
!["... and that he does not approve of believing in the experts because, for one to know, it is necessary not to believe in them, but to see what they say, like Euclid and other mathematicians, who do not ask anybody to believe in them but to understand what they say resorting to reason or evidence..."
Sanctius (1523-160), Spanish grammarian, replying to the Inquisition.
[Quoted by C. P. Otero, Evolución y revolución en romance. Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1971, p.13.]](home_files/shapeimage_1.png)
![C.V. (.pdf)
Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Junko Shimoyama (2013). Expressing Ignorance in the Nominal Domain: Japanese Wh-ka. Proceedings of WCCFL 31.
Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2013) Two Views on Epistemic Indefinites. Language and Linguistics Compass, 7:2, 105-122.
Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (Forthcoming) Random Choice Modality: Spanish Uno Cualquiera. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17.
Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2012) Indefinites, Dependent Plurality, and the Viability Requirement on Scalar Alternatives. Journal of Semantics, 30:1, 65-102. Published online on February 20 2012. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffr013
[Abstract] [.pdf]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2011) Expressing Indifference: Spanish Un NP Cualquiera. Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference, ed. by Neil Ashton, Anca Chereches, and David Lutz.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2011) Domain Restrictions, Modal Implicatures and Plurality: Spanish Algunos. Journal of Semantics 28(2), 211-240; doi: 10.1093/jos/ffq016 [Abstract] [.pdf]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. Forthcoming. Plural Epistemic Indefinites. Plural Epistemic Indefinites. Proceedings of NELS 40. (Shorter version of ‘Domain Restrictions, Modal Implicatures and Plurality.’)
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. 2010. Modal Indefinites. Natural Language Semantics. 18 (1), 1-31. DOI 0.1007/s11050-009-9048-4
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. Forthcoming. EVEN and Biased Questions: The Case of Spanish Siquiera. Proceedings of the 19th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, ed. by Satoshi Ito and Ed Cormany, Cornell University.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis, Paula Menéndez-Benito, and Florian Schwarz. Forthcoming. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. Proceedings of the 39th North East Linguistic Society Conference.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2009. Counterfactuals, Correlatives, and Disjunction. Linguistics and Philosophy 32(2): 207-244. [Pre-print version. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis, and Paula Menéndez Benito. 2008. Minimal Domain Widening. Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, pp. 36-44.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2008. Innocent Exclusion in an Alternative Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, 16 (2): 115-128. DOI 10.1007/s11050-008-9027-1 [Pre-print version. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com]
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2007. Alternatives in the Disjunctive Antecedents Problem. Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, pp. 42-50.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2005. Distributing the Disjuncts over the Modal Space. Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 35, ed. by Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2004a. Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 34, ed. by Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA, pp. 1-15.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Elena Guerzoni. 2004b. Double Negation, Negative Concord and Metalinguistic Negation. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting, 38-1: The Main Session, ed. by Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha and Keiko Yoshimura. Chicago, IL: CLS Publications, pp. 15-31.
Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. 2003a. Some Epistemic Indefinites. Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. by Makoto Kadowaki and Shigeto Kawahara, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA, pp. 1-12.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2003b. Incremental Modification of Discourse Referents: the Case of Restricted Quantification. On Semantic Processing, UMOP 27, ed. by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA , pp. 1-26.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2003c. Spanish De-Clauses are not Always in the Right Mood, Romance Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2001, ed. by Josep Quer et al., Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-16.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis; Charles Clifton, Lyn Frazier and Susana Fernández Solera. 2002a. Null vs. Overt Pronouns and The Topic-Focus Articulation in Spanish. Journal of Italian Linguistics, 14:2, pp. 151-169.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. 2002b. Two Types of Weak Quantifiers: Evidence from Spanish. Proceedings of the 1st North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2002c. Arbitrary Pronouns are not that Indefinite. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000, ed. by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-15.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2002d. Aspect and Situations: A Situation Semantics Account of the Semantic Variability of Spanish Al-Clauses. From Words to Discourse. Trends in Spanish Semantics and Pragmatics. ed. by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Oxford/New York: Elsevier Science (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface (CRISPI), Volume 10), pp. 119-127.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Francesco D’Introno. 2001a. Full Pronouns in Spanish: the Zero Pronoun Hypothesis. Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the Myllenium, ed. by Héctor Campos et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 189-210. |Details…
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2000b. Is the Arbitrary Interpretation a Semantic Epiphenomenon? Issues in Semantics and its Interface, UMass Working Papers in Linguistics, 21, ed. by N. Kusumoto and E. Villalta. Amherst, MA: GLSA, pp. 155-183.
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2000c. Aspectos gnoseólogicos de la lingüística de Cuervo. Thesaurus, LXIII, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá (Colombia), pp. 345-378.
DISSERTATION
Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2006. Disjunction in Alternative Semantics. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA. |[.pdf]](home_files/shapeimage_2.png)
