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PDF versions of the papers/handouts can be downloaded by
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Papers for which no download link is provided are still under
revision (or otherwise not ready for "prime time"), and will
be posted as soon as a revised version is available.
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Publications
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to appear
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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]
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Are scalar implicatures computed online? In Proceedings of WECOL
2004. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus]
[PDF]
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Notes on reduplication in Maasai. In Papers in African
Linguistics, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. Los Angeles, Cal.:
Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.
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The syntax of Maasai possessive DPs. In Papers in African
Linguistics, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. Los Angeles, Cal.:
Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA.
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2005
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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]
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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]
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2004
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Review of "Recanati, François 2003. Literal
Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press". LINGUIST List 15.2535. [link]
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2003
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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]
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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]
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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]
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2000
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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]
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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]
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1999
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Editor. Syntax at Sunset 2, UCLA Working Papers in
Linguistics 3. Los Angeles, Cal.: Dept. of Linguistics,
UCLA. [link]
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Presentations
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2005
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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]
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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]
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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]
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2004
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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]
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Are scalar implicatures computed online? November 2004. Sinn
und Bedeutung IX. Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen, The
Netherlands. [with Michael K. Tanenhaus] [slides] [handout]
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2002
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Possessives in context. May 2002. Workshop on the
Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, Massachusetts.
[Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
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Possessives in context. April 2002. Center for Language
Sciences, University of Rochester. Rochester, New York.
[Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
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Possessives in context. March 2002. Department of
Linguistics, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada.
[Invited Talk] [slides] [handout]
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On the compositional interpretation of Italian "bare
partitives". January 2002.
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America. San Francisco, California. [handout]
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2001
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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]
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Agreement patterns in Maasai and the syntax of possessive DPs.
March 2001. 25th Penn Linguistic Colloquium. University of
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [handout]
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Agreement patterns in Maasai possessive DPs. March 2001. 5th
Texas Linguistics Society. University of Texas at Austin. Austin,
Texas. [handout]
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2000
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Indefinite possessives are indefinite, after all. June 2000.
Semantics and Linguistic Theory X (SALT 10). Cornell
University. Ithaca, New York. [handout]
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Indefinite possessives and (non-)specificity. May 2000.
Conference on (Preferably) Non-lexical Semantics. CNRS.
Paris, France. [handout]
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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
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in progress
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Are scalar implicatures computed online? Evidence from
eye-tracking. Manuscript. University of Rochester. [with Michael K.
Tanenhaus and Gregory N. Carlson]
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Sherlock Holmes was in no danger. Manuscript. University of
Rochester. [with Gregory N. Carlson]
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Partitives are not recursive DPs. Manuscript. University of
Rochester.
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Possessives. Manuscript. University of Rochester.
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2003
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Possessives in Context:
Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions.
Ph.D. Dissertation. UCLA. [1up]
[2up] [two-sided]
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2000
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Issues in the semantics of possessive constructions. Dissertation
prospectus. UCLA. [PDF]
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On the Structure of (So-called) Possessive
DPs. M.A. Thesis. UCLA. [PDF]
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1999
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An assessment of the debate on the acquisition of universal
quantification. Manuscript. UCLA.
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Three views of syntactic change: The case of Romance pronominal
clitics. Manuscript. UCLA.
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1998
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Inalienable constructions and the structure of
DP. Manuscript. UCLA.
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Plural formation in Italian Morphology. Manuscript. UCLA.
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1997
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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