Last updated 2013-02-27

 

Bernhard Schwarz

Department of Linguistics

McGill University

 

 

 

papers, handouts, slides

 

Schwarz, Bernhard, Brian Buccola, and Michael Hamilton: 2012. ÒTwo types of class B numeral modifiers: a reply to Nouwen (2010)Ó, Semantics and Pragmatics, Volume 5, Article 1: 1–25. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2011, ÒLong distance indefinites and choice functionsÓ. Language and Linguistics Compass 5: 880–897. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2011, ÒRemarks on class B numeral modifiersÓ. Handout for talk at workshop Indefinites and Beyond, University of Gšttingen, November 18-19, 2011. [handout]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard and Junko Shimoyama: 2011, ÒNegative Islands and Obviation by Wa in Japanese Degree QuestionsÓ, in Nan Li and David Lutz (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, pp. 684–701. [paper]

 

Nissenbaum, Jon and Bernhard Schwarz: 2011, ÒParasitic Degree PhrasesÓ, Natural Language Semantics 19: 1-38 (supersedes Nissenbaum and Schwarz 2009) [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2010, ÒA note on for-phrases and derived scalesÓ. Handout for talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 15, UniversitŠt des Saarlandes, September 9-11, 2010. [handout]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2010. ÒGerman noch so: Scalar Degree Operator and Negative Polarity ItemÓ. In M. Aloni, H. Bastiaanse, T. de Jager and K. Schulz (eds.) Amsterdam Colloquium 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6042), Springer, Berlin, pp.  426-435 [paper]

 

Nissenbaum, Jon and Bernhard Schwarz: 2009, ÒInfinitivals with too: Degree operator scope and parasitic gap licensingÓ, in Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18, pp. 551-568. [paper]

 

Gualmini, Andrea and Bernhard Schwarz: 2009, ÒSolving learnability problems in the acquisition of semanticsÓ, Journal of Semantics 26, 185-215. [paper]

 

Nissenbaum, Jon and Bernhard Schwarz: 2008, ÒTwo Puzzles about Infinitivals with TooÓ, in Natasha Abner, Jason Bishop, and Kevin Ryan (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 344-352. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2007, ÒReciprocal EquativesÓ, in E. Puig-WaldmŸller (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, pp.568-582. [paper]

Gualmini, Andrea and Bernhard Schwarz: 2007, ÒNegation and Downward Entailingness: Consequences for Learnability TheoryÓ, in Hedde Zeijlstra and Jan-Phillip Soehn (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Polarity, University of TŸbingen, Collaborative Research Center 441, pp. 65-70. (superseded by Gualmini and Schwarz 2009) [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2006a, ÒCovert Reciprocity and Strawson-SymmetryÓ, Snippets 13, 9-10. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2006b, ÒAttributive wrongÓ, in Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 362-370. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard and Rajesh Bhatt: 2006, ÒLight negation and PolarityÓ, in Zanuttini, Raffaella, HŽctor Campos, Elena Herburger and Paul H. Portner (eds.), Cross-Linguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, pp. 175-198. [prepublication draft]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2005a, ÒScalar additive particles in negative contextsÓ, Natural Language Semantics 13, 125-168. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2005b, ÒModal SuperlativesÓ, in Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 15, CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, pp. 187-204. [paper]

 

Bhatt, Rajesh and Bernhard Schwarz: 2004, ÒDeriving Negative PolarityÓ, poster presented at GURT 2004, Georgetown University. [slides]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2004, ÒIndefinites in Verb Phrase EllipsisÓ, Linguistic Inquiry 35, 344-353. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2001a, ÒTwo kinds of long distance indefinitesÓ, in R. van Rooy and M. Stokhof, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam University, pp. 192-197. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2001b, ÒTwo kinds of long distance indefinitesÓ, unpublished manuscript, Stuttgart University. (long version of Schwarz 2001a) [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2000a, ÒA note on exclusive disjunctionÓ, unpublished manuscript, MIT. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2000b, ÒNotes on evenÓ, unpublished manuscript, Stuttgart University. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 1999, "On the Syntax of either...or", Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 17, 339-370. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 1998a, "On Odd Coordinations in German", The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 2, 191-219. [paper]

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 1998b, "Reduced Conditionals in German: Event Quantification and Definiteness", Natural Language Semantics 6, 271-301. [paper]

 

 

PhD dissertation

 

Schwarz, Bernhard: 2000, Topics in Ellipsis, PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [pdf]