The Art and Craft of Semantics:

A Festschrift for Irene Heim

This is an online version of the Festschrift in honor of Irene Heim, presented to her on her 60th birthday, on October 30th, 2014.
A printed version of the Festschrift can be ordered from MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL volumes 70 and 71).

Editors: Luka Crnič and Uli Sauerland

Table of contents:

• Luka Crnič and Uli Sauerland
     Foreword. pdf
• Luka Crnič, David Pesetsky, and Uli Sauerland
     Introduction: Irene Heim - Biographical Notes. pdf, bib
• Dorit Abusch
      Temporal Succession and Aspectual Type in Visual Narrative. pdf, bib
• Calixto Agüero-Bautista
      Weak Crossover is not a Semantic Phenomenon. pdf, bib
• Sam Alxatib
      The Comparative as Subsethood: How Degree-Referring Restrictors Fit In. pdf, bib
• Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard
      Factivity, Belief and Discourse. pdf, bib
• Sigrid Beck
      Plural Predication and Quantified Than-Clauses. pdf, bib
• Luka Crnič
      Against a Dogma on NPI Licensing. pdf, bib
• Marcelo Ferreira
      Displaced Aspect in Counterfactuals: Towards a More Unified Theory of Imperfectivity. pdf, bib
• Kai von Fintel, Danny Fox, and Sabine Iatridou
      Definiteness as Maximal Informativeness. pdf, bib
• Kai von Fintel and Angelika Kratzer
      Modal Comparisons: Two Dilletantes in Search of an Expert. pdf, bib
• Jon Gajewski and I-ta Chris Hsieh
      Comments on Negative Polarity Items in Definite Descriptions. pdf, bib
• Elena Guerzoni and Yael Sharvit
      Whether or not Anything but not Whether Anything or Not. pdf, bib
• Michela Ippolito and Julia Su
      Counterfactuals, Negation, and Polarity. pdf, bib
• Natalia Ivlieva
      Multiplicity and Non-monotonic Environments. pdf, bib
• Christopher Kennedy
      Predicates and Formulas: Evidence from Ellipsis. pdf, bib
• Youngjoo Lee
      On the Meaning and Distribution of the Aspectual Focus Adverb Acik in Korean. pdf, bib
• Toshiyuki Ogihara
      The Semantics of -ta in Japanese Future Conditionals. pdf, bib
• Orin Percus
      What Concealed Questions Might Conceal. pdf, bib
• Maribel Romero
      'Fake Tense' in Counterfactuals: A Temporal Remoteness Approach. pdf, bib
• Uli Sauerland
      Counterparts Block some De Re Readings. pdf, bib
• Philippe Schlenker
      Featural Variables. pdf, bib
• Yael Sharvit
      Sneaky Derivations Sneak Rule-I In: A Reply to Heim's "Forks in the Road to Rule I." pdf, bib
• Junri Shimada
      Entailments and Implicatures of Cumulative Sentences. pdf, bib
• Raj Singh
      A Note on Local Accommodation. pdf, bib
• Yasutada Sudo
      Presupposition Satisfaction in Attitude Contexts and Modal Subordination. pdf, bib
• Guillaume Thomas
      Reference to Degrees and Nominalization in Mbyá. pdf, bib
• Tue Trinh
      How to Ask the Obvious: A Presuppositional Account of Evidential Bias in English yes/no Questions. pdf, bib
• Wataru Uegaki
      Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Derivation of Alternative Questions: Japanese and Beyond. pdf, bib
• Natalie Weber and Lisa Matthewson
      Reflections of Complement Type: The View from Blackfoot. pdf, bib