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Bibliography on Exceptives

Al-Bataineh, Hussein. 2021. The morphosyntax of Arabic exceptives: A minimalist approach. Journal of Semitic Studies 66, 441-482. [Syntax, Arabic]

Authier, Marc. 2020. On the comparative analysis of French (ne)…que exceptives. Probus 32, 1-54. [Syntax, French]

Beck, Sigrid. 2000. The semantics of different. Linguistics & Philosophy 23, 101-139. [Semantics]

Crnič, Luka. 2018. A note on connected exceptive phrases and approximatives. Journal of Semantics 35, 741-756. [Semantics]

Fuji, Masaaki. 2001. Problems with Reinhart’s analysis of exceptive conjunction constructions in English. TUMSAT-OACIS Repository – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 91-100. [Syntax]

Gajewski, Jon. 2008. NPI any and connected exceptive phrases. Natural Language Semantics 16, 69-110. [Semantics]

Gajewski, Jon. 2013. An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items. Ms. University of Connecticut. [Semantics]

Galal, Mohamed. 2019. Les constructions exceptives du français et de l’arabe: syntaxe et interface semantique-syntaxe. PhD dissertation, Sohag University and Paris Nanterre University. [Syntax, Semantics, French, Arabic]

García Álvarez, Iván. 2007. Connected exceptives and non-monotonic inference. In Erin Bainbridge and Brian Agbayani (eds.). Proceedings of the 34th Western Conference on Linguistics. Fresno: Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno. [Semantics]

García Álvarez, Iván. 2008. Generality and exception: A study in the semantics of exceptives. PhD dissertation, Stanford University. [Semantics]

Hasegawa, Akio. 2010. The semantics and pragmatics of Japanese focus particles. PhD dissertation, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. [Semantics, Pragmatics, Japanese]

Hirsch, Aron. 2016. An unexceptional semantics for expressions of exception. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22, 139-148. [Semantics]

Hoeksema, Jacob. 1987. The logic of exception. In Amanda Miller and J. Powers (eds.), Proceedings of ESCOL 4, 100-113. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. [Semantics]

Hoeksema, Jacob. 1995. The semantics of exception phrases. In Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eick (eds.), Quantifiers, logic and languages, 145-177. Stanford: CSLI. [Semantics]

Hohaus, Vera. 2015. Context and composition: How presuppositions restrict the interpretation of free variables. PhD dissertation, University of Tübingen. [Semantics]

Homer, Vincent. 2015. Ne…que and its challenges. In U. Steindl et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 111-120. Somerville, Ma.: Casacadilla Proceedings Project. [Semantics, French]

Jarvis, Rebecca. 2022. Clausal exceptives and exceptive sluices. Proceedings of NELS 52. [Syntax]

Jędrzejowski, Łukasz. 2022. On the synchrony, variation and diachrony of adverbial exceptive clauses in Polish. Glossa,. 1–41. [Syntax, Polish]

Keenan, Edward L. and Jonathan Stavi. 1986. A semantic characterization of natural language determiners. Linguistics and Philosophy 9, 253-326. [Semantics]

Khomchenkova, Irina. 2020. Exceptives in Hill Mari and Moksha Mordvin. In Van Alem, Astrid, Mirella De Sisto, Elisabeth J. Kerr, and Joanna Wall, (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XXVIII: Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 25-40. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/sole [Syntax, Hill Mari and Moksha Mordvin]

Kleiber, Georges. 2005. Comment se “règle” linguistiquement l’exception: petite sémantique des constructions exceptives. Faits de langues 25, 39-52. [Semantics]

Lappin, Shalom. 1996. Generalized quantifiers, exception phrases, and logicality. Journal of Semantics 13, 197-220. [Semantics]

Liu, Mingming. 2019. Explaining the exceptive-additive ambiguity in Mandarin. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium[Semantics, Mandarin Chinese]

Moltmann, Friederike. 1995. Exception sentences and polyadic quantification. Linguistics and Philosophy 18, 223-280. [Semantics]

O’Neill, Teresa. 2011a. The syntax of ne…que exceptives in French. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17, 175-184. [Syntax, French]

O’Neill, Teresa. 2011b. The syntax of ne … que exceptives in French. NYU Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 199 – 230. [Syntax, French]

Oskolskaya, Sofia. 2009. The properties of the Russian construction with conjunction krome kak. AFLiCo 3, 27 – 29.

Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel and Norberto Moreno-Quibén. 2011. Sentential coordination and ellipsis. In Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs, and Tobias Scheer (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Nice 2009, 255-272. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Syntax]

Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel and Norberto Moreno-Quibén. 2012. On the syntax of exceptions. Evidence from Spanish. Lingua 122, 582-607. [Syntax, Spanish]

Peters, Stanley and Dag Westerstahl. 2006. Quantifiers in Language and Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Semantics]

Peters, Stanley, and Dag Westerståhl. 2022. The semantics of exceptives. Linguistics & Philosophy 46, 197-235. [Semantics]

Peters, Stanley, and Dag Westerståhl. 2023. Quantifiers in language and logic. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Semantics]

Piot, Mireille. 2005. Sur les fausses prépositions: sauf et excepté. Journal of French Language Studies 15, 297-314.  [Semantics]

Polinsky, Maria, Hisao Kurokami, and Eric Potsdam. To appear. Exceptive constructions in Japanese. In Masatoshi Koizumi (ed.), Issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives, Vol. 2: Interaction between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors, 275-310. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [Syntax, Japanese] 

Potsdam, Eric. 2018. Exceptives, ellipsis, and island (in)sensitivity. Handout of talk given at AFLA 25, Academia Sinica. [Syntax]

Potsdam, Eric. 2018. Exceptives and ellipsis. In Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson (eds.). Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 1, 259-268. Amherst, Ma.: GLSA. [Syntax]

Potsdam, Eric. 2019. Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction. In Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun (eds.). Proceedings of the 54th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 435-450. Chicago: CLS. [Syntax]

Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. 2017. A preliminary look at exceptives in Tahitian. In Jason Ostrove, Ruth Kramer, and Joseph Sabbagh (eds.). Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung. Santa Cruz: Linguistics Research Center. [Syntax, Tahitian]

Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. 2019. Clausal and phrasal exceptives. Poster presented at GLOW 42, University of Oslo. [Syntax]

Reinhart, Tanya. 1991. Elliptic conjunctions – non-quantificational LF. In Asa Kasher (ed.), The Chomskyan turn, 360-384. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. [Syntax]

Saeed, Samira. 2023. The syntax of exceptive constructions in Arabic. [Syntax, Arabic]

Sava, Nicoleta. 2009. Altceva decât nu … decât. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 109-119. [Syntax, Semantics]

Schäfer, Roland. nd. The distribution of exceptive phrases in Swedish.

Sevi, Aldo. 2008. A two-layered analysis of the Hebrew exceptive xuc mi. In Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon, and Susan Rothstein (eds.). Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics, 337-351. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Semantics, Hebrew]

Soltan, Usama. 2016. On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic. In Stuart Davis and Usama Soltan (eds.), Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXVII, 35-57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Syntax, Egyptian Arabic]

Stockwell, Richard, and Deborah J. M. Wong. 2019. Elided antecedents: Sprouting with except-phrases. Poster presented at Sluicing+@50, University of Chicago, April 12-13, 2019. [Syntax]

Stockwell, Richard, and Deborah J. M. Wong. 2020. Sprouting and the structure of except-phrases. In Mariam Asatryan, Yixiao Song, and Ayana Whitmal (eds.), The Proceedings of 50th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society, 169-182. Amherst, Ma.: GLSA. [Syntax]

von Fintel, Kai. 1989. Exception phrases. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15, 1 – 8. [Semantics]

von Fintel, Kai. 1993. Exceptive constructions. Natural Language Semantics 1, 123-148. [Semantics]

Vostrikova, Ekaterina. 2019. Phrasal and clausal exceptive-additive constructions crosslinguistically. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [Syntax, semantics]

Vostrikova, Ekaterina. 2019. Compositional analysis for clausal exceptives. Proceedings of SALT 29, 420-440. [Syntax, semantics]

Vostrikova, Ekaterina. 2021. Conditional analysis of clausal exceptives. Natural Language Semantics 29, 159-227. [Syntax, semantics]

Zuber, Richard. 1998. On the semantics of exclusion and inclusion phrases. In Devon Strolovitch and Aaron Lawson (eds.). Proceedings of SALT VIII, 267-283. NY: Cornell Linguistics Club. [Semantics]