Gennaro Chierchia

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gennaro Chierchia is involved.

Journal

Language and Linguistics

語言暨語言學

Edited by Rui-wen Wu

ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067

Articles

Phan, Trang and Gennaro Chierchia 2026 Putting three pieces of a puzzle into place: Classifiers–plurals–articles in Vietnamese New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 436–458 | Chapter

Vietnamese exhibits characteristics that challenge the typological distinction between Sino-Tibetan classifier languages and Indo-European number-marking languages. Notably, (i.a) many nouns combine directly with numerals without classifiers, (i.b) it has developed two productive plural markers,… read more

Panizza, Daniele and Gennaro Chierchia 2011 Numerals and scalar implicatures Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article

In this paper we explore the relation between the meaning of number denoting determiners (‘numerals’) and the polarity of the context in which they occur. We claim that when numerals are embedded in positive (i.e. Upward Entailing) contexts they are given an upper bounded (‘exactly’) reading more… read more