Selected Papers


organised by topic

Perspective shift

NEW  Abrusán, M. (2023). Plural and Quantified Protagonists in Free Indirect Discourse and Protagonist Projection. Journal of Semantics. paper    draft

Abrusán, M. (2022). The Perspective-Sensitivity of Presuppositions. Mind & Language.  https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12359.  pre-print

Abrusán, M. (2021). Computing Perspective Shift in Narrative.  In The Language of Fiction,  edited by E. Maier and A. Stokke, Oxford University Press draft

Abrusán, M. (2020). The Spectrum of Perspective Shift: Free Indirect Discourse vs. Protagonist Projection. Linguistics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09300-z draft version,  view-only pdf


Presuppositions

NEW Abrusán, M. (2022). Presuppositions. In D. Altshuler (ed.), Linguistics meets philosophy. Cambridge University Press. (draft version) link to publisher's website

Abrusán, M.  (2016). Presupposition Cancellation: Explaining the Soft-Hard Distinction. Natural Language Semantics 24(2): 165-202. doi:10.1007/s11050-016-9122-7  and draft version

Abrusán, M.  and K. Szendrői (2013). Experimenting with the King of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions. Semantics and Pragmatics Volume 6, Article 10: 1-43. doi:10.3765/sp.6.10

Abrusán, M.  (2011). Predicting the Presuppositions of Soft Triggers.  Linguistics and Philosophy 34(6): 491-535.  doi:10.1007/s10988-012-9108-y (open access)

        -- A shorter but different version has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 20: 684-701, 2011 

Abrusán, M.  (2013). A Note on Quasi-presuppositions and Focus. Journal of Semantics 30 (2): 257-265. doi:10.1093/jos/ffs010   


Lexical semantics, distributional semantics, grammaticality

Abrusán, M. (2019). Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity and Ungrammaticality. Annual Review of Linguistics 5(1): 329-351. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011938    downloadable e-print , prepublication draft

Abrusán, M., Asher, N. and  Van de Cruys, T. (2021).  Grammaticality and Meaning Shift. In G. Sagi and J. Woods (Eds.), The Semantic Conception of Logic. Cambridge University Press. draft version

Abrusán, M., Asher, N. and  Van de Cruys, T. (2018).  Content vs. Function Words: The View from Distributional Semantics. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, vol. 1, ZASPiL 60, pp. 1-21.  semantics archive

Asher, N., Van de Cruys, T., Bride, A. and Abrusán, M. (2016). Integrating type theory and distributional semantics: a case study on adjective-noun compositions.  Computational Linguistics 42(4): 703-725.  doi:10.1162/COLI_a_00264 

Asher, N., Abrusán, M., and  Van de Cruys, T. (2016). Types, meanings and co-composition in lexical semantics. In S. Chatzikyriakidis and Z. Luo (eds.) Modern Perspectives in Type Theoretical Semantics. Studies of Linguistics and Philosophy, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50422-3_6

Abrusán, M. (2016). Coercion and Pragmatic Presuppositions. Inquiry 59(5): 529-541. doi:10.1080/0020174X.2016.1184842


Discourse structure

Hunter, J. and M. Abrusán (2016). Rhetorical relations and QUDs. In New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI Workshop, LENLS, JURISIN, KCSD, LLLL Revised Selected Papers, Springer. pdf

Weak islands,  semantics of degrees

Book: Abrusán, M.  (2014).  Weak Island Semantics. Oxford University Press. publisher's page  

Abrusán, M.  (2011). Wh-islands in Degree Questions. Semantics and Pragmatics Volume 4, Article 5: 1–44. doi:10.3765/sp.4.5

       -- A related but mistaken paper has appeared in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart 

Abrusán, M.  (2011). Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account. Natural Language Semantics 19(3): 257–321.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11050-010-9064-4 and preprint

       -- A shorter version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 18.  semantics archive

Abrusán, M.  and  B. Spector (2011). An Interval Based Semantics for Negative Degree Questions. Journal of Semantics 28(1): 107-147.  doi:10.1093/jos/ffq013 and preprint

        -- An earlier version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of WCCFL 27. UCLA 

Hungarian

Abrusán, M. (2006). Even and Free Choice Any in Hungarian. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona. semantics archive 

Abrusán, M. (2005). Underspecified Precedence Relation and Vowel-Zero Alternations in Hungarian. Proceedings of BLS 31. pdf