Yael Sharvit's publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Sharvit, Yael (2008). "The Puzzle of Free Indirect Discourse", Linguistics and Philosophy, 31:353-395.

Guerzoni, Elena and Yael Sharvit (2007). "A Question of Strength: On NPIs in Interrogative Clauses", Linguistics and Philosophy, 30:361-391. (Pre-publication draft).

Herdan, Simona and Yael Sharvit (2006). "Definite and Non-definite Superlatives and NPI Licensing", Syntax 9:1-31.

Sharvit, Yael (2004). "Some Remarks on Quantificational Variability and Question-Embedding Predicates", English Linguistics 21:541-569.

Sharvit, Yael (2003). "Trying to be Progressive: the Extensionality of Try", Journal of Semantics 20:403-445.

Sharvit, Yael (2003). "Embedded Tense and Universal Grammar", Linguistic Inquiry 34:669-681.

Sharvit, Yael (2003). "Tense and Identity in Copular Constructions", Natural Language Semantics 11:363-393.

Beck, Sigrid and Yael Sharvit (2002). "Pluralities of Questions", Journal of Semantics 19:105-157.

Sharvit, Yael and Penka Stateva (2002). "Superlative Expressions, Context, and Focus", Linguistics and Philosophy 25:453-505.

Sharvit, Yael (2002). "Embedded Questions and 'De Dicto' Readings", Natural Language Semantics 10:97-123.

Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Functional Relative Clauses", Linguistics and Philosophy 22:447-478.

Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 17:587-612.

Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Connnectivity in Specificational Sentences", Natural Language Semantics 7:299-341.

IN PREPARATION:

Gajewski, Jon and Yael Sharvit. 2009. “In Defense of the Grammatical Approach to Local Implicatures”. Draft 5/15/2009.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Sharvit, Yael (2008). "Bare Minimizers". In S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon and S. Rothstein (eds.), Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, John Benjamins, 293-312.

Sharvit, Yael (2007). "Two Reconstruction Puzzles". In P. Jacobson and C. Barker (eds.), Direct Compositionality, Oxford University Press, 336-359. (Pre-publication draft)

Sharvit, Yael (2008). הבטים של הסמנטיקה של זמן הנטיה בעברית מודרנית ("Aspects of the Semantics of Tense in Modern Hebrew", in Hebrew). In G. Hatav (ed.), בלשנות עברית תאורטית (Theoretical Hebrew Linguistics), Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 139-162.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Despić, Miloje and Yael Sharvit (to appear). “Some Non-Intersective Adjectives are Genuinely Noun-Taking”, Proceedings of NELS 39.

Sharvit, Yael (to appear). “Revisiting Connectivity in Copular Sentences”, Proceedings of SALT 19.

Fitzgibbons, Natalia, Yael Sharvit and Jon Gajewski (to appear). "Plural Superlatives and Distributivity", Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 18.

Sharvit, Yael and Jon Gajewski (2008). "On the Calculation of Local Implicatures", Proceedings of the 26^th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, C. Chang and H. Haynie (eds.), Cascadilla Press, 411-419.

Bhatt, Rajesh and Yael Sharvit (2005). "A Note on Intensional Superlatives", in E. Georgala and J. Howell (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 15, CLC Publications, Cornell University, 62-79.

Sharvit, Yael (2004). "Free Indirect Discourse and De Re Pronouns", in R. Young (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 14, CLC Publications, Cornell University, 305-322.

Sharvit, Yael and Elena Guerzoni (2003). "Reconstruction and its Problems", in P. Dekker and R. van Rooy (eds.), Proceedings of the 14^th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, 205-210.

Sharvit, Yael (2002) "Embedded Quantifiers in Which- and Whether-Questions", in B. Jackson (ed.), Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVII, CLC Publications, Cornell University, 266-285.

Sharvit, Yael (2001). "Embedded Quantifiers and Quantificational Variability", in R. van Rooy and M. Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the 13^th Amsterdam Colloquium, Univesiteit van Amsterdam, 210-215.

Sharvit, Yael and Sigrid Beck (2001). "Subquestions and Quantificational Variability Effects", in K. Megerdoomian and L.A. Bar-el (eds.), Proceedings of West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) XX, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA, 510-523.

Sharvit, Yael and Penka Stateva (2001). "How Far does the Superlative Operator Move?", in A. Grosu (ed.), Selections from the 6^th Annual IATL Conference and the Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clause Constructions, Tel-Aviv Univ., 77-85.

Sharvit, Yael and Penka Stateva (2000). "Against `Long' Movement of the Superlative Operator", in Brendan Jackson and Tanya Matthews (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) X, CLC Publications, Cornell University, 185-202.

Sharvit, Yael (2000). "Tense in Copular Constructions: Identifying Three Types of Copular Sentences", in Michelle Minnick Fox, Alexander Williams and Elsi Kaiser (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 233-245.

Sharvit, Yael (1998). "Individual Concepts and Attitude Reports", Proceedings from Semantics And Linguistic Theory (SALT) VIII, CLC Publications, Cornell University.

Sharvit, Yael (1998). "Possessive WH-Expressions and Reconstruction", Proceedings of the 28^th meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), GLSA Publications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sharvit, Yael (1998). "Free Relatives and Connectedness", in G. Katz, S.-S. Kim and H. Winhart (eds.), Reconstruction: Proceedings of the 1997 Tübingen Workshop, Stuttgart University and University of Tübingen, 207-222.

Sharvit, Yael (1998). "Functional and Pair-list Embedded Questions", A. Dimitriadis, H. Lee, L. Siegel, C. Surek-Clark, and A. Williams (eds.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 4.3.

Sharvit, Yael (1996). "Functional Dependencies and Indirect Binding", in T. Galloway and J. Spence (eds.) Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) VI, CLC Publications, Cornell University, 227-244.

Sharvit, Yael (1996). "Right Dislocation as IP-Ellipsis", in H. Makihara (ed.), Working Papers in Linguistics (NWLC 12), Vol. 14, University of Washington, 179-188.

Sharvit, Yael (1995). "Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Modern Hebrew Verbal System: an Optimality Theoretic Analysis", Proceedings of the 10^th Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Israel.

Last updated: May 31, 2009