Publications
Refereed Journals
Under review. Impersonal pronouns and first-person perspective. Annual Review of Linguistics.
Resubmitted. Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): the interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable. [M. Hunt, C. Cotter, H. Pearson & L. Stockall]
Accepted with revisions. On testing for de se and de re construals across languages. Semantic Fieldwork Methods.
2022. Excluded entailments and the de se/de re partition. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 1-29. [H. Pearson & T. Roeper]
2019. Not in my wildest dreams: a part time minimizer? Snippets 37 (Special issue in honour of Uli Sauerland) 80-81. [H. Pearson & F. Sode]
2018. Counterfactual de se. Semantics and Pragmatics (Early access version).
2017. He himself and I. Snippets 31, 20-21.
2016. The Semantics of Partial Control. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 34(2), 691-738.
2015. The Interpretation of the Logophoric Pronoun in Ewe. Natural Language Semantics 23(2), 77-118.
2013. A Judge-Free Semantics for Predicates of Personal Taste. Journal of Semantics 30, 103-154.
2010. A Modification of the “Hey, Wait a Minute” Test. Snippets 22, 7-8.
Edited volumes
In preparation. Alphabet of Universal Grammar. Proceedings of the British Academy. [D. Harbour, L. Martí, H. Pearson & C, van Urk (eds.)]
2021. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25. University of Konstanz. [P. Grosz, L. Marti, H. Pearson, Y. Sudo, S. Zobel (eds.)]
Book Chapters
In preparation. Semantics. Leung, D. & J. Lewkowicz (eds.), The Routledge Companion to English Studies (2nd Edition). Routledge.
In preparation. Worlds of Possibility: Murder, Mystery, and Meaning. Kogan, V. (eds.), Games for Students of Linguistics. Cascadilla Press Linguistics Titles. [Q. C. Yan, L. Martí & H. Pearson]
2022. Individual and stage-level predicates of personal taste: another argument for genericity as the source of faultless disagreement. Zeman, D., Wyatt, J., Zakkou, J. (eds.), Perspectives on Taste: Aesthetics, Language, Metaphysics, and Experimental Philosophy. Routledge. 286-318.
2020. Three puzzles about de se. In Bhatt, R., Frana, I., & Menendez-Benito, P. (eds.), Making Worlds Accessible. [H. Pearson & T. Roeper]
2020.. Attitude verbs. Invited contribution for Matthewson, L., Meier, C., Rullmann, H. & Zimmermann, T.E. (eds.), Companion to Semantics. Wiley.
2014. On the Syntax and Semantics of the Japanese Comparative. In Folli, R., Sevdali, C., & Truswell, R. (eds.), Syntax and its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 279-299.
Conference Proceedings
2016. On Experience-Driven Semantic Judgments: A Case Study on the Oneiric Reference Constraint. Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 6. [J. Dery & H. Pearson]
2014. Dreaming De Re and De Se: Experimental Evidence for the Oneiric Reference Constraint. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18. [H. Pearson & J. Dery]
2011. A New Semantics for Group Nouns. In Washburn, M.B., McKinney-Bock, K., Varis, E., Sawyer, A., Tomaszewicz, B. (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 160-168.
2010. Even More Evidence for the Emptiness of Plurality: an Experimental Investigation of Plural Interpretation as a Species of Implicature. In Li, N. & D. Lutz (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, 489-508. [H. Pearson, M. Khan & J. Snedeker]
2010. Presupposition Accommodation in Local Contexts: Why Global Accommodation is not Enough. In Clackson, K., Absi, Z., Ogawa, M., Ono, M., Patterson, C.,Villafana, V. (eds.) Language at the University of Essex (LangUE) 2009 Proceedings, 70-80.
2010. How to do Comparison in a Language without Degrees: a Semantics for the Comparative in Fijian. In Schmitt, V. & Zobel, S. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, 356-372.
Unpublished work
2013. The Sense of Self: Topics in the Semantics of De Se Expressions. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University.
On the Presence of Adjectives in Fijian and the Universality of the Category 'Adjective'.