Empirical issues in syntax and semantics: Selected papers from CSSP 2023

Gabriela Bîlbîie (ed), Gerhard Schaden (ed)

Synopsis

The present volume in the series Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics collects a curated selection of papers from the 2023 Colloque de Syntax et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2023), held on December 7-8, 2023, at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The result aims to be a snapshot of contemporary linguistic research in the areas of syntax and
semantics.

The eight contributions investigate phenomena spanning focus, meaning, modification, and  discourse, offering new insights into how grammatical structures encode and convey  information, and illustrating how detailed empirical work informs our understanding of  grammatical phenomena. Drawing on data from multiple languages and employing diverse  analytical frameworks, these studies advance current debates while maintaining the  methodological rigor characteristic of contemporary formal linguistics.

The collection provides a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students working in syntax, semantics, and related areas.

Chapters

  • A novel representation of focus structure and non-constituent focus
    Kata Balogh, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Oswald
    Chapter 1
  • Primary vs. secondary meaning facets of polysemous nouns
    Long Chen, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Oswald
    Chapter 2
  • Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives
    Chenyuan Deng, Antonio Machicao y Priemer, Giuseppe Varaschin
    Chapter 3
  • Using belief-perception mismatch to assess the meaning of Subjective Attitude Verbs
    Achille Fusco, Christiano Chesi, Valentina Bianchi
    Chapter 4
  • Paradigms and discourse effects of English rising declaratives
    Junseon Hong
    Chapter 5
  • Next mention biases predict the choice of null and pronominal subjects
    Fabian Istrate, Ruxandra Ionescu, Barbara Hemforth
    Chapter 6
  • Discourse markers are not special (but they can be complicated)
    Jacques Jayez
    Chapter 7
  • On the (im-)possibility of reflexive binding into the subject of German experiencer-object verbs
    Simon Masloch, Johanna M. Poppek, Tibor Kiss
    Chapter 8

Biographies

Gabriela Bîlbîie

Gabriela Bîlbîie is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the French Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, working on theoretical and experimental syntax. She earned her PhD in 2011 from Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, with a thesis devoted to the description and formalization of elliptical constructions in Romanian and French, with a focus on verbal ellipsis. Her postdoctoral research (within the French project LabEx EFL) includes, in addition to the theoretical dimension, a quantitative and experimental approach, setting up parallel experiments in several (mainly, Romance) languages to test various factors involved in ellipsis phenomena.

Gerhard Schaden

Gerhard Schaden is an assistant professor at the Université de Lille, currently on sabbatical at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR 7110) at the CNRS. His research focuses on the semantic-pragmatics interface, linguistic change, and non-cooperative pragmatics. He has contributed to the study of perfect tenses and aspect, with more recent work addressing expressive phenomena, such as slurs. Presently, his research delves into the intersection of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, exploring meaning effects that challenge traditional boundaries between these fields.

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Published

May 20, 2025
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Series

Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax

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2366-3529
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Bîlbîie, Gabriela & Schaden, Gerhard (eds.). 2025. Empirical issues in syntax and semantics: Selected papers from CSSP 2023. (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 16). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15449929
Copyright (c) 2025 Gabriela Bîlbîie, Gerhard Schaden

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