Research Interests My research interests include pragmatics and lexical semantics (presupposition triggering, types and strengths of presuppositions), the semantics-syntax interface (weak islands, the semantics of questions, the semantics of degree expressions) and Hungarian (free choice indefinites, vowel-zero alternations). Presuppositions (with Kriszta Szendrői) Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions draft, October 28, 2011 (pdf) Predicting the Presuppositions of Soft Triggers, draft, February 8, 2012 (pdf 40pages)-- A shorter but different version has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 20: 684-701, 2011 (pdf 18pages) A Note on Quasi-presuppositions and Focus draft January 31, 2011 (pdf)
Weak Islands, Semantics of degrees Wh-islands in Degree Questions (pdf)Semantics and Pragmatics Volume 4, Article 5: 1–44, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.4.5 --A related but mistaken paper has appeared in the Proceedings of Sinn und
Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account (preprint 56pages) Natural Language Semantics 19(3). 257–321, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11050-010-9064-4 (with Benjamin Spector)
An Interval Based Semantics for Negative Degree Questions
(preprint) Journal of Semantics 28(1). 107-147, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffq013 -- An earlier version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of WCCFL 27. UCLA (pdf) A Semantic Analysis of Negative Islands with Manner Questions (pdf) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo Hungarian Even and Free Choice Any in Hungarian (pdf) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona Underspecified Precedence Relation and Vowel-Zero Alternations in Hungarian (pdf) PhD Dissertation Contradiction and Grammar: The Case of Weak Islands (pdf) |