Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Address: Lichtenberg-Kolleg
Historische Sternwarte der
Universität Göttingen

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37083 Göttingen
Germany


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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)
        Slightly revised version to appear in the Journal of Semantics 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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
       --A shorter version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 18  (pdf 18pages)

(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)         
        Proceedings of BLS 31


PhD Dissertation

Contradiction and Grammar: The Case of Weak Islands   (pdf)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  September 2007.) Revised version as of May 2008.