Papers

1. 1. Spector, Benjamin (2025). An alternative to Presuppositional Exhaustification: Supervaluationist RSA , Proc. of Sinn und Bedeutung 29, `Too Many Tools' worshop.
  2. Guerrini, Janek & Benjamin Spector (2025). Plural Definites and Domain Restriction in Romance and Germanic, Proc. of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.
  3. Spector, Benjamin (2024). Trivalence and Transparency : a non-dynamic approach to anaphora, accepted with minor revisions in Linguistics & Philosophy.
  4. Zhou, Ruizhe, Spector, Benjamin & Mora Maldonado (2024), An experimental assessment of the `nall' lexical gap, Prceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2024.
  5. Loder, Matthew, Kuhn, Jeremy & Benjamin Spector (2024), Experimentally assessing the symmetry of presupposition filtering across disjunction, Proceedings of NELS 2024
  6. Spector, Benjamin (2024). Trivalent Logic and Presuppositions, to appear in Handbook of Trivalent Logics, ed. Paul Egré and Lorenzo Rossi
  7. Egré, Paul & Benjamin Spector (2024), Explaining vague language, under revision.
  8. Chatain, Keny, Spector, Benjamin & Nina Gregorio (2024). Existential and universal readings of pronouns across binary connectives: an experimental investigation, under revision.
  9. Cremers, Alexandre, Wilcox, Ethan & Benjamin Spector (2023). Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. Cognitive Science, 47: e13286. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13286
  10. Egré, Paul, Spector, Benjamin, Mortier, Adèle et Steven Verheyen (2023). On the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims, Linguistics and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-022-09379-6
  11. Spector, Benjamin. (2023). It’s not about 'about'–comparatives, negation and intervals. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. Vol. 27. 2023. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1090
  12. Enguehard, Emile & Benjamin Spector (2021). Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages - A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle, Semantics and Pragmatics 14(5). https://semprag.org/index.php/sp/article/view/sp.14.5
  13. Godard, Danièle et Benjamin Spector (2021). Chapitre ‘Polarité’, Grande Grammaire du Français (dirigée par A. Abeillé et A. Delaveau et D. Godard), Actes Sud.
  14. Kriz, Manuel, et Benjamin Spector (2020). Interpreting Plural Predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality, Linguistics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09311-w.
  15. Spector, B., (2020), Modified Numerals. in the Wiley Companion to Semantics, ed. Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Link to preprint
  16. Dieuleveut, A., Chemla, E., & Spector, B. (2019). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, 106, 150-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008
  17. Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009. Link to pdf
  18. Spector, Benjamin. (2019). An argument for the trivalent approach to presupposition projection. Snippets 37 (Special Issue in Honour of Uli Saureland). Link
  19. Wilcox Ethan et Benjamin Spector, Benjamin. (2019). The Role of Prior Beliefs in The Rational Speech Act Model of Pragmatics: Exhaustivity as a Case Study. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3099-3015). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03877465v1/document
  20. Fox, Danny & Benjamin Spector (2018). Economy and Embedded Exhaustification. Natural Language Semantics 10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6. Link to preprint
  21. Spector B. (2018). ‘Le langage’. Chapitre de l’ouvrage La Cognition. Du neurone à la société. Ed. Thérèse Collins, Daniel Andler et Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Folio-Essais.
  22. Spector, Benjamin & Yasutada Sudo (2017). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact. Linguistics and Philosophy 40, 473–517. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10988-017-9208-9
  23. Chemla, Emmanuel, Egré, Paul & Benjamin Spector (2017). Characterizing logical consequence in many-valued logic, Journal of Logic and Computation 27, 2193–2226. https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/27/7/2193/3067506, Link to preprint.
  24. Maldonado, Mora, Spector, Benjamin & Emmanuel Chemla (2017). Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 10.1017/s0140525x17000516. Link to preprint
  25. Maldonado, Mora, Chemla Emmanuel & Benjamin Spector (2017). Priming plural ambiguities, Journal of Memory and Language 95, 89–101 (2017) doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.02.002. Link to preprint
  26. Ruytenbeek, Nicolas, Verheyen, Steven & Benjamin Spector (2017). Asymmetric inference towards the antonym: experiments into the polarity and morphology of negated adjectives, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2, 92 , https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/4954/
  27. Spector, Benjamin. (2017) The pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act Model. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium: 435-444, https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003826
  28. Ruys, Eddy G. & Benjamin Spector (2017). Unexpected Wide Scope Phenomena. The Companion to Syntax, ed. Everaert, Martin and Henk C. Van Riemsdijk, Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom089
  29. Buccola, Brian & Benjamin Spector (2016). Modified numerals and maximality, Linguistics and Philosophy 39, 151–199 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9187-2 - View-only final published version: http://rdcu.be/npul.
  30. Spector, Benjamin (2016). Comparing Exhaustivity Operators. Semantics and Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.9.11
  31. Linzen, Tal, Dupoux, Emmanuel & Benjamin Spector (2016). Quantificational features in distributional word representations, Proceedings of the 5th joint conference on lexical and computational semantics, https://aclanthology.org/S16-2001/
  32. Spector, Benjamin (2015). Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition. Topoï 35, 45–55, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-014-9292-1, Link to pdf
  33. Spector, Benjamin et Paul Egré (2015). A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives : an answer, not necessarily the answer. Synthese 192(6), 1729–1784, Link to pdf
  34. Spector, Benjamin et Yasutada Sudo (2015). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19, ed. Eva Csipak & Hedde Zeijlstra, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/253
  35. Spector, Benjamin (2014). Global Positive Polarity Items and Obligatory Exhaustivity. Semantics and Pragmatics. 7:11, p. 1-61, https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.11
  36. Marty, Paul, Chemla, Emmanuel & Spector Benjamin (2014). Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.931592, Link to preprint
  37. Marty, Paul, Chemla, Emmanuel & Spector, Benjamin (2013). Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load. Lingua. 133: 152-163, Link to pdf
  38. Spector, Benjamin (2013). Maxims of Conversation. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0129.xml.
  39. Spector, Benjamin (2013). Bare numerals and scalar implicatures. Language and Linguistics Compass. 7(5) : 273-294. Link to preprint
  40. Chierchia, Gennaro, Fox, Danny et Benjamin Spector (2012). Scalar Implicature as a Grammatical Phenomenon. In An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning Semantics, vol 3 eds. P. Portner, C. Maienborn et K. von Heusinger, Mouton de Gruyter. Link to paper
  41. Spector, Benjamin (2012). Being simultaneously an NPI and a PPI: a bipolar item in French. Snippets 25: 21-22. https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets25008.pdf
  42. Chemla Emmanuel et Benjamin Spector (2011). Experimental evidence for embedded scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics 28 (3): 359-400, https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/28/3/359/1662118, Link to preprint
  43. Abrusan, Marta et Benjamin Spector (2011). A semantics for degree questions based on intervals: negative islands and their obviation. Journal of Semantics 28: 107 – 147, https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/28/1/107/1642667, Link to preprint
  44. Mary, Clemens et Benjamin Spector (2010). Not too strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2009, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/474
  45. Chemla, Emmanuel et Benjamin Spector (2010). Experimental Detection of Embedded Implicatures. In Maria Aloni et al. (eds), Logic, Language and Meaning. 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6042 : 53-62, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_6.pdf
  46. Mayr, Clemens et Benjamin Spector (2010). Not too strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2009, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/474
  47. Chierchia, Gennaro, Fox, Danny et Benjamin Spector (2009). Hurford’s constraint and the theory of scalar implicatures. In Presuppositions and Implicatures, ed. Paul Egré & Giorgio Magri, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
  48. Spector, Benjamin (2008). An unnoticed reading for wh-questions: elided quantified answers and weak islands. Linguistic Inquiry 39(4) : 677-686, http://cognet.mit.edu/journal/10.1162/ling.2008.39.4.677, Link to preprint
  49. Abrusán, Márta et Benjamin Spector (2008). An interval-based semantics for degree questions: negative islands and their obviation. In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/27/paper1812.pdf
  50. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Modalized Questions and Exhaustivity. In Proc. of SALT 17, http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/2962/2702
  51. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Aspects of the pragmatics of plural morphology: on higher-order implicatures. In U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (ed.), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics, Palgrave-Macmillan. Link to preprint
  52. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Scalar implicatures: exhaustivity & Gricean reasoning. In M. Aloni & P. Dekker (ed.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Issues in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 17, Elsevier. Link to paper
  53. Matushansky, Ora et Benjamin Spector (2006). Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In E. Maier, C. Bary & J. Huitink (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.731
  54. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Indefinites in subject position are positive polarity items. Snippets 9, 2004, https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets9005.pdf*
  55. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Distributivity & specific indefinites. In S. Blaho et al (ed.), Proc. of CONSOLE XII, Link to pdf
  56. Spector, Benjamin (2004). Pseudo Weak Crossover in French relative clauses & global economy. In Actes des Journées d’Etudes Linguistiques 2004, Link to pdf
  57. Spector, Benjamin (2003). Plural indefinite DPs as PLURAL-polarity items. In Romance Languages & Linguistic Theory 2001 [Proceedings of Going Romance 2001], ed. Josep Queer et al., John Benjamins, Link to pdf
  58. Spector, Benjamin (2005). Linguistique générative et cognitivisme : bref aperçu. In Labyrinthe, volume 20.
  59. Spector, Benjamin (2003). Grammaire et logique. In Labyrinthe, volume 14.
  60. Spector, Benjamin (1999). La société. GF Flammarion – Collection of classical political and social philosophical texts, with a general introduction and comments on each text.

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