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Publications

to appear
Sherlock Holmes was in no danger. In Betty Birner and Gregory Ward (eds.), Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [with Gregory N. Carlson][PDF]
 
Are scalar implicatures computed online? In Proceedings of WECOL 2004. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus] [PDF]
 
Notes on reduplication in Maasai. In Papers in African Linguistics, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. Los Angeles, Cal.: Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.
 
The syntax of Maasai possessive DPs. In Papers in African Linguistics, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. Los Angeles, Cal.: Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.
 
2005
Are scalar implicatures computed online? In Emar Maier, Corien Bary and Janneke Huitink (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9. Nijmegen: Nijmegen Centre for Semantics. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus] [PDF]
 
Possessives in context. In Ji-yung Kim, Yury A. Lander, and Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Possessives and Beyond: Semantics and Syntax, pp.59–86. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts. [PDF]
 
2004
Review of "Recanati, François 2003. Literal Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press". LINGUIST List 15.2535. [link]
 
2003
On the status of the partitive determiner in Italian. In Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from Going Romance 2001, pp.315–330. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]
 
Agreement in Maasai and the syntax of possessive DPs (I). In S. Arunachalam, E. Kaiser and A. Williams (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Penn Linguistic Colloquium, PWPL 8.1. Philadelphia, Penn.: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. [PDF]
 
Agreement in Maasai and the syntax of possessive DPs (II). In William E. Griffin (ed.), The Role of Agreement in Natural Language: TLS 5 Proceedings, Texas Linguistic Forum 53, pp.193–206. Austin, Tex.: Texas Linguistic Society. [PDF]
 
2000
On the structure of indefinite possessives. In Brendan Jackson and Tanya Matthews (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistics Theory X. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University. [PDF]
 
Double genitives aren't (quite) partitives. In Arika Okrent and John Boyle (eds.), Papers from the Thirty-Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol.1, pp.501–516. Chicago, Ill.: CLS, University of Chicago. [PDF]
 
1999
Editor. Syntax at Sunset 2, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 3. Los Angeles, Cal.: Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA. [link]
 

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Presentations

2005
The calculation of scalar implicatures: An experimental investigation. Experimental Pragmatics: Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Conversation. April 2005. University of Cambridge. Cambridge, United Kingdom. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus and Gregory N. Carlson] [slides] [handout]
 
The processing of scalar implicatures. March 2005. 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus and Gregory N. Carlson] [poster]
 
The calculation of scalar implicatures: Evidence from eye-tracking. January 2005. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Oakland, California. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus and Gregory N. Carlson] [slides] [handout]
 
2004
Are scalar implicatures computed online? November 2004. Western Conference of Linguistics (WECOL 2004). University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus] [slides] [handout]
 
Are scalar implicatures computed online? November 2004. Sinn und Bedeutung IX. Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus] [slides] [handout]
 
2002
Possessives in context. May 2002. Workshop on the Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, Massachusetts. [Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
 
Possessives in context. April 2002. Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester. Rochester, New York. [Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
 
Possessives in context. March 2002. Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada. [Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
 
On the compositional interpretation of Italian "bare partitives". January 2002. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, California. [handout]
 
2001
On the status of the "partitive determiner" in Italian. December 2001. Workshop on Determiners, Going Romance 2001 (alternate paper). Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [handout]
 
Agreement patterns in Maasai and the syntax of possessive DPs. March 2001. 25th Penn Linguistic Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [handout]
 
Agreement patterns in Maasai possessive DPs. March 2001. 5th Texas Linguistics Society. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. [handout]
 
2000
Indefinite possessives are indefinite, after all. June 2000. Semantics and Linguistic Theory X (SALT 10). Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. [handout]
 
Indefinite possessives and (non-)specificity. May 2000. Conference on (Preferably) Non-lexical Semantics. CNRS. Paris, France. [handout]
 
Double genitives aren't (quite) partitives. April 2000. 36th Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 36). University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. [handout]
 

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Manuscripts

in progress
Are scalar implicatures computed online? Evidence from eye-tracking. Manuscript. University of Rochester. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus and Gregory N. Carlson]
 
Sherlock Holmes was in no danger. Manuscript. University of Rochester. [with Gregory N. Carlson]
 
Partitives are not recursive DPs. Manuscript. University of Rochester.
 
Possessives. Manuscript. University of Rochester.
 
2003
Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions. Ph.D. Dissertation. UCLA. [1up] [2up] [two-sided]
 
2000
Issues in the semantics of possessive constructions. Dissertation prospectus. UCLA. [PDF]
 
On the Structure of (So-called) Possessive DPs. M.A. Thesis. UCLA. [PDF]
 
1999
An assessment of the debate on the acquisition of universal quantification. Manuscript. UCLA.
 
Three views of syntactic change: The case of Romance pronominal clitics. Manuscript. UCLA.
 
1998
Inalienable constructions and the structure of DP. Manuscript. UCLA.
 
Plural formation in Italian Morphology. Manuscript. UCLA.
 
1997
Domande e Focus: Aspetti della Dinamica dello Scambio Informazionale ("Questions and Focus: Aspects of the Dynamics of Information Exchange"). Tesi di Laurea. Università di Siena. [in Italian] [PDF]
 

Last update: November 11, 2005