Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2011) Expressing Indifference: Spanish Un NP Cualquiera. Proceedings the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference., ed. by Neil Ashton, Anca Chereches, and David Lutz.

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Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2011) Domain Restrictions, Modal Implicatures and Plurality: Spanish Algunos. Journal of Semantics. 28 (2): 211 - 240. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffq016 [Abstract] [.pdf]

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. Forthcoming. Plural Epistemic Indefinites. Plural Epistemic Indefinites. Proceedings of NELS 40.

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. Forthcoming. EVEN and Biased Questions: The Case of Spanish Siquiera. Proceedings of the 19th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, ed. by Satoshi Ito and Ed Cormany, Cornell University.

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez-Benito. (2010) Modal Indefinites. Natural Language Semantics, 18 (1) : 1-31.

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2009. Counterfactuals, Correlatives, and Disjunction. Linguistics and Philosophy 32(2): 207-244. [Pre-print version. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com]

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis; Menéndez-Benito, Paula, and Schwarz, Florian. Forthcoming. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. Proceedings of NELS 39.

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Paula Menéndez Benito. Forthcoming. Minimal Domain Widening. WCCFL 27 Proceedings.

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis. 2008. Innocent Exclusion in an Alternative Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, 16: 115-128. DOI 10.1007/s11050-008-9027-1 [Pre-print version. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com]

 

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"... and that he does not approve of believing in the experts because, for one to know, it is necessary not to believe in them, but to see what they say, like Euclid and other mathematicians, who do not ask anybody to believe in them but to understand what they say resorting to reason or evidence..."

Sanctius (1523-160), Spanish grammarian, replying to the Inquisition.

[Quoted by C. P. Otero, Evolución y revolución en romance. Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1971, p.13.]