Barbara Abbott

List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara Abbott plays a role.

Articles

Abbott, Barbara 2011 Out of control: The semantics of some infinitival VP complementsPragmatics 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 2003 Some Notes on QuotationHybrid 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”. read more