Barbara Abbott

List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Abbott is involved.

Articles

Abbott, Barbara 2011 Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complements Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 229–242 | Article

On the currently dominant view of superficially subjectless infinitival complements they contain a PRO subject (and are thus syntactically sentential), and denote a proposition. Sadock (2008) argues against the PRO analysis, but maintains the propositional view. This paper follows Montague’s (1973)… read more

Abbott, Barbara 2006 Where have some of the presuppositions gone? Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Abbott, Barbara 2003 Some Notes on Quotation Hybrid Quotations, De Brabanter, Philippe (ed.), pp. 13–26 | Article

This paper offers support for, and modification of, Recanati’s distinction between open and closed quotation. It also points out two unresolved issues associated with quotation: the problem of reference to meaning, and a new category, tentatively named “noncitational quotation”.