Lucia M. Tovena's downloadable papers

• The meaning and (a bit of) the history of quelque, (with J.Jayez, in Tovena L. M. (ed.) French Determiners in and across time London: College Publications, 111--139, 2011) pdf file
• Issues in the formation of verbs by evaluative suffixation, ( Atti del XLIII Congresso internazionale di studi della Società Italiana di Linguistica, 913--925, S.L.I. Rome, 2010) pdf file in prefinal version
• Accomplishments: their telos and their structure, ( Proceedings of the 15th Sinn und Bedeutung, 613--628, Saarbruken, 2010) pdf file
• Les adverbes zài du chinois mandarin et encore dans le système temporel de Reichenbach, (with M.Donazzan and S.R. Schwer, Cahiers de Linguistique -- Asie orientale, 39:2, 129--155, 2010) pdf file in prefinal version
• When small is many in the event domain, ( Lexis 6 , 41--58, 2010) pdf file
• Pluractionality and the unity of the event, ( in Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz (eds.) Amsterdam Colloquium 2009 LNAI 6042, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, 465--473) pdf file
• On the temporal use of the focus particle gerade, (with Gerhard Schaden, Proceedings of the 13th Sinn und Bedeutung, 485--498, Stuttgart 2009) pdf file
• Pluractional verbs that grammaticise number through the part-of relation, (in Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010, 233--248) pdf file
• On ways of repeating, (with M.Donazzan, in Tovena L. (ed.) Aspect et pluralité d'événements, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 37, 85-112 2008) pdf file
• Nibbling is not many bitings in French and Italian: A morphosemantic analysis of internal plurality, (with A.Kihm, Proceedings 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2008) pdf file
• Subtrigging as Alternatives through Regularities (with J.Jayez, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 127--132, Amsterdam, 2007) pdf file
• Evidentiality and determination, (with J. Jayez, Proceedings of the 12th Sinn und Bedeutung, 271--286, Oslo 2008) pdf file
• Presque and almost: how argumentation derives from comparative meaning (with J. Jayez, Actes de CSSP 2007: Empirical issues in formal syntax and semantics, Paris, 2008) pdf file
• A temporal analysis for `irrealis' zai, (with M.Donazzan, in Proceedings of 8th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, 79-86, Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK, 2007) pdf file
• Comment devenir scalaire, (Travaux de Linguistique, 54, 109-119, Bruxelles 2007) pdf file
• Epistemic determiners, (with J. Jayez, Journal of Semantics, 23:3, 217--250, 2006) pdf file
• Dealing with alternatives, ( Proceedings of the 10th Sinn und Bedeutung, 373-387, Berlin 2006) pdf file
• When `Widening' is too narrow (with J.Jayez, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 131--136, Amsterdam, 2005) pdf file
• Discourse and addition (Proceedings ESSLLI 2005, Workshop "Discourse Domains and Information Structure", p.47-56) pdf file
  A version with minor corrections
• Negative quantification and existential sentences (Existence: Semantics and Syntax, Springer, (in press)) pdf file
• La place de différent dans le syntagme nominal et les déterminants (with M. Van Peteghem, in F.Corblin, Sylvie Ferrando et Lucien Kupferman (eds.) Indéfinis et Prédications, Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, (in press)) pdf file
• Free--Choiceness and Non Individuation (with J. Jayez, Linguistics and Philosophy, 28, 1--71, 2005) pdf file
• Tout as a genuine free choice item (with J. Jayez, in F.Corblin and H. de Swart (eds.) The Handbook of French Semantics, CSLI, Stanford, 71--81, 2004) pdf file
• L'expression de la négation dans les langues romanes (with F. Corblin, in D.Godard (ed.) Les langues romanes: problèmes de la phrase simple, CNRS Editions, Paris, 279--341, 2003) pdf file
• Determiners and weakly discretised domains, (in J. Quer, J. Schroten, P. Sleeman and E. Verheugd (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003, 333--348) pdf file
• Determiners and (Un)certainty. (with J. Jayez, Proceedings of SALT 12, CLC Publications, 2002) pdf file
• Facets of `different' in French: différent and autre. (with M. Van Peteghem, Actes de CSSP 2001: Empirical issues in formal syntax and semantics, 63--79, Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2002) pdf file
• Between mass and count. (in K. Mergerdoomian and L.A. Bar-el (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL, 565--578, Medford: Cascadilla Press, 2001) pdf file
• The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity: questions and answers. (Lingua e Stile, XXXVI:1, 2001, 131-167) pdf file
• On the multiple expression of negation in Romance. (with F. Corblin, in Yves D'Hulst, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001, 87-115) pdf file
• Neg-Raising: negation as finite failure?. (in Hoeksema J., H. Rulmann, V.Sanchez Valencia and T. van der Wouden (eds.) Perspectives on negation and polarity items, John Benjamins, 2000, 331-356) pdf file in prefinal version
• Déterminants et irréférence. L'exemple de tout. (with J. Jayez, in M.J.Reichler-Béguelin and J. Moeshler (eds.) Référence temporelle et nominale, Berne:Peter Lang 1999, 235-268) pdf file
• The context sensitivity of the Italian adverb ancora. (in Proceedings of ConSole 3, Rijks Universiteit Leiden 1994, 231-246) pdf file

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