Papers

[See also my publication profile on Google Scholar Citations]

To appear

Maier, E. (2024). Pictorial language and linguistics. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics, edited by Gabriel Dupre, Kate Stanton, and Ryan Nefdt.

Maier, E. (2023). Reporting with clausal embedding and without: Another look at the Pirahã controversy. To appear in Benz et al. (eds.) Handbook of Clausal Embedding. Language Science Press [open access]

2023

Maier, E. (2023). Emojis as pictures. Ergo 10, doi: 10.3998/ergo.4641. [open access]

Maier, E. (2023). Attribution and the discourse structure of reporting, Dialogue & Discourse 14(1), pp 34-55 doi: 10.5210/dad.2023.102 [open access]

2022

Altshuler, D. and E. Maier (2022). Coping with imaginative resistance. Journal of Semantics 39(3), pp. 523-549 doi: 10.1093/jos/ffac007 [open access]

Maier, E. (2022). Unreliability and point of view in filmic narration. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 59(2), pp.23-37 doi: 10.5840/eps202259217 [open access] Special issue on Language and Perception, edited by Ivan Mikirtumov, with invited commentaries by Dorit Abusch, Sebastian Bücking, Marc Champagne, Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, Kristina Liefke, Julian Schlöder, Daniel Tiskin, Suren Zolyan. My response: Other points of view. [open access]

Maier, E. and M. Steinbach (2022). Perspective shift across modalities. Annual Review of Linguistics 8. doi: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-021042

2021

Maier, E. and A. Stokke (eds., 2021) The Language of Fiction. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198846376.001.0001

Maier, E. and M. Semeijn (2021). Extracting fictional truth from unreliable sources. In E. Maier and A. Stokke (eds.) The Language of Fiction. OUP. pp.186-220. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198846376.003.0008

Vogels, J., S. Bimpikou, O. Kapelle, and E. Maier (2021). Taking the perspective of narrative characters: A mouse-tracking study on the processing of ambiguous referring expressions in narrative discourse. In Linguistics in the Netherlands, edited by Dingemanse et al.. John Benjamins. pp. 129-147. doi: 10.1075/avt.00054.vog

Bimpikou, S., E. Maier, and P. Hendriks (2021). The discourse structure of free indirect discourse. In Linguistics in the Netherlands, edited by M. Dingemanse et al.. John Benjamins. pp. 21-39. doi: 10.1075/avt.00048.bim

Bary, C. and E. Maier (2021). The landscape of speech reporting. Semantics & Pragmatics 14(8). doi: 10.3765/sp.14.8 [open access]

2020

Altshuler, D. and E. Maier (2020). Death on the Freeway: Imaginative resistance as narrator accommodation. In Making Worlds Accessible. Essays in honor of Angelika Kratzer. Edited by Ilaria Frana, Paula Menéndez-Benito and Rajesh Bhatt. pp 1-16. doi: 10.7275/w10a-pv24 [open access[

Maier, E. (2020). Quotes as complements: A Kratzerian approach. In Making Worlds Accessible. Essays in honor of Angelika Kratzer edited by Ilaria Frana, Paula Menéndez-Benito and Rajesh Bhatt. pp 91-100. doi: 10.7275/w10a-pv24 [open access]

Maier, E. (2020). Mixed Quotation. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics., edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullman, and Ede Zimmerman. Wiley Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118788516.sem080 

Maier, E. (2020). Making up stuff in Aeon

2019

Maier, E. (2019). Picturing words: the semantics of speech balloons. In: Schlöder, J. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 584–592. ILLC.

Hübl, A., E. Maier, and M. Steinbach (2019). To shift or not to shift: quotation and attraction in DGS. Sign Language & Linguistics 22(2). Pp 248-286.

Özyıldız, D., T. Major, and E. Maier (2019). Communicative reception reports as hear-say: Evidence from indexical shift in Turkish. In: Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, edited by Richard Stockwell, Maura O'Leary, Zhongshi Xu, and Z.L. Zhou, Cambridge: Cascadilla Press, pp. 296-305.

Maier, E. and Sofia Bimpikou (2019). Shifting perspectives in pictorial narratives. In: M. Teresa Espinal et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, vol. 2, pp. 91–105. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Maier, E. (2019). On the exceptionality of reported speech. Linguistic Typology 23(1) pp. 197-205. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2019-0009

2018

Maier, E. (2018). Lying and Fiction. In: Meibauer, J. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Lying, Oxford University Press, pp.303-314.

Maier, E. (2018). Quotation, Demonstration, and Attraction in Sign Language Role Shift. Theoretical Linguistics 44(3/4), pp.165-176. doi: 10.1515/tl-2018-0019.

Köder, F. and E. Maier (2018). The advantage of story-telling: Children's interpretation of reported speech in narratives. Journal of Child Language 45(2). pp. 541-557. doi: 10.1017/S0305000917000344 (open access). [the experimental game can be accessed at www.philos.rug.nl/cgm/story-demo/

2017

Maier, E. (2017). The pragmatics of attraction: explaining unquotation in direct and free indirect discourse. In The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation, edited by Paul Saka and Michael Johnson. Berlin: Springer. pp. 259-280. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68747-6_9

Maier, E. (2017). Fictional names in psychologistic semantics. Theoretical Linguistics 43(1-2). pp. doi: 10.1515/tl-2017-0001. With commentaries (all together):

And my reply:

Köder, F. and E. Maier (2017). When you isn't you. The attraction of self­-ascription in children’s interpretation of pronouns in reported speech. Glossa. 2(1), pp.1-17. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.187 (open access) [the tablet version of the experimental game can be accessed at www.philos.rug.nl/cgm/ipad-children/]

Maier, E. (2017). Referential dependencies between conflicting attitudes. Journal of Philosophical Logic 46(2). pp. 141-167. doi: 10.1007/s10992-016-9397-7 (open access)

2016

Maier, E. (2016). A plea against monsters. Grazer Philosophische Studien 93 pp.363-395. doi: 10.1163/18756735-09303003

Maier, E. (2016). Attitudes and Mental Files in Discourse Representation Theory. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 7(2), pp. 473-490. doi: 10.1007/s13164-015-0296-6 (open access)

Maier, E. (2016). Why my I is your you: On the communication of de se attitudes. In: M. García-Carpintero and S. Torre (eds.) About Oneself: De Se Thought and Communication, Oxford University Press. pp. 220-245. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713265.001.0001

Geurts, B., D. Beaver, and E. Maier (2016). Discourse Representation Theory. In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), E. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/discourse-representation-theory/

Köder, F. and E. Maier (2016) Children mix direct and indirect speech: Evidence from pronoun comprehension. (prefinal version) Journal of Child Language 43(4), pp. 843-866. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000318 [the experimental game can be accessed at www.philos.rug.nl/cgm/ipad-children/]

2015

Maier, E. and C. Bary (2015). Three puzzles about negation in non-canonical speech reports. In: Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium.

Maier, E., A. de Koster, and J. Spenader (2015). Simulating prosody in free indirect speech: A reading study. In: Lestrade et al. (eds.) Addenda: artikelen voor Ad Foolen. pp. 263-273. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/141617

Köder, Franziska, E. Maier, and P. Hendriks (2015). Perspective shift increases processing effort of pronouns: A comparison between direct and indirect speech. (prefinal version) OnlineFirst in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1047460

Maier, E. (2015). Parasitic Attitudes. Linguistics & Philosophy 38(3). pp. 205-236. (open access) doi: 10.1007/s10988-015-9174-z

Maier, E. (2015). Quotation and Unquotation in Free Indirect Discourse. Mind & Language 30(3). pp. 345-373. doi: 10.1111/mila.12083

Maier, E. (2015). Reference, binding and presupposition: three perspectives on the semantics of proper names. Erkenntnis 80(2) pp. 313-333. doi: 10.1007/s10670-014-9702-1

Maier, E. (2015). Reported Speech in the Transition from Orality to Literacy. Glotta 91(1). pp. 152-170. doi:10.13109/glot.2015.91e.1.152

2014

Maier, E. (2014). Pure Quotation. Philosophy Compass. 9(9). pp 615-630. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12149

Maier, E. (2014). Language Shifts in Free Indirect Discourse. Journal of Literary Semantics. 43(2) pp 143-167 doi: 10.1515/jls-2014-0010

Maier, E. (2014). Mixed Quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity. Semantics & Pragmatics. 7(7) pp 1-67. (open access) doi: 10.3765/sp.7.7

Bary, C. & E. Maier (2014). Unembedded Indirect Discourse. Sinn und Bedeutung 18. pp. 77-94

Maier, E. (2014). Japanese reported speech: Towards an account of perspective shift as mixed quotation. In McCready, E., K. Yabushita, and K. Yoshimoto (eds) Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics, Springer. pp. 135-154. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8813-7_7

2013

Geurts, B. and E. Maier (2013). Layered Discourse Representation Theory. In Capone, A., F. Lo Piparo, and M. Carapezza (eds) Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics, Springer.

Maier, E. & de Schepper, K. (2013). Fake indexicals in Dutch: A counterexample to Kratzer (2009). Snippets 27(1). doi:10.7358/snip-2013-027-maie

Maier, E., K. de Schepper, & M. Zwets (2013). The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of The Netherlands. Research in Language 11(4). doi: 10.2478/rela-2013-0010

2012

Maier, E. (2012). Switches between direct and indirect speech in ancient Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 12(1), pp. 118-139. doi: 10.1163/156658412X649751

2011

Maier, E. (2011). On the roads to de se. In Ashton, N., A. Chereches, and D. Lutz (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21. doi: 10.3765/salt.v21i0.2611

2010

Maier, E. (2010). Presupposing acquaintance: a unified semantics for de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. Linguistics and Philosophy, 32(5), 429-474. doi: 10.1007/s10988-010-9065-2.

Maier, E. (2010). Quoted imperatives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14. Vienna.

2009

Maier, E. (2009). Proper names and indexicals trigger rigid presuppositions. Journal of Semantics 26, 253-315. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffp006.

Maier, E. (2009). Japanese Reported Speech: Against a Direct-Indirect Distinction. In H. Hattori et al. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 5447, pp. 133-145). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00609-8_13.

Bary, C., & Maier, E. (2009). The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes – Anaphoricity and de se interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past. In H. Hattori et al. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 146-160). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00609-8_14.

Spenader, J., & Maier, E. (2009). Contrast as denial in multi-dimensional semantics. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(9), 1707-1726. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.005.

Maier, E. (2009). Iterated de re: A New Puzzle for the Relational Report Semantics. In A. Riester & T. Solstad (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13 (pp. 347-355). Stuttgart.

2008

Maier, E. (2008). What syntax doesn’t feed semantics: fake indexicals as indexicals. In M. Romero (Ed.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2008 workshop `What syntax feeds semantics?’. Hamburg.

Maier, E. (2008). Breaking Quotations. In K. Satoh et al. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 4914, pp. 187-200). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_18.

2007

Maier, E. (2007). Mixed quotation: between use and mention. Proceedings of LENLS 2007. Miyazaki, Japan.

Maier, E. (2007). Quotation marks as monsters, or the other way around?. In M. Aloni et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium (pp. 145-150). Amsterdam.

2006

Maier, E. (2006). Belief in context: towards a unified semantics of de re and de se attitude reports. Dept of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen

Maier, E. (2006). Review of Elbourne (2006) "Situations and individuals". LINGUIST List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3393.html.

2005 and older

Geurts, B., & Maier, E. (2005). Quotation in Context. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 17(1), 109-128. doi: 10.1075/bjl.17.07geu.

Maier, E. (2005). De re and de se in quantified belief reports. Proceedings of ConSOLE XIII (pp. 211-229).

Maier, E., & van‍ ‍der Sandt, R. (2003). Denial and correction in Layered DRT. Proceedings of DiaBruck.

van der Sandt, R. & Maier, E. (2003). Denials in discourse.

Geurts, B., & Maier, E. (2003). Layered DRT. Nijmegen.