ARTICLES

I. Published or accepted for publication

General


Music Semantics


Gesture Semantics

    • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Gestural Grammar. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. [LingBuzz] [published version]

    • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Gesture Projection within the Transparency Theory [Squib]. Linguistic Inquiry. [LingBuzz]

    • Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker, & Emmanuel Chemla: 2018, Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments. Glossa.

    • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Gestural Semantics. To appear in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. [LingBuzz] [published version]

    • Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker, & Emmanuel Chemla: to appear, Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks. Glossa.

    • Schlenker, Philippe: 2018, Iconic Pragmatics. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36, 3: 877-936 [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe, and Chemla, Emmanuel: 2018, Gestural Agreement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 36, 2: 87–625587. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe: 2018, Gesture Projection and Cosuppositions. Linguistics & Philosophy 41, 3:295–365. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe: 2015, Gestural Presuppositions [Squib]. Snippets. [LingBuzz]


Sign Language Semantics

    • Lin, Hao; Kuhn, Jeremy; Sheng, Huan; Schlenker, Philippe: accepted with minor revisions, Timelines and Temporal Pointing in Chinese Sign Language Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

    • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Logical Visibility and Iconicity in Sign Language Semantics: Theoretical Perspectives [Handbook Article]. To appear in Quer, Josep; Pfau, Roland; Herrmann, Annika (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, Routledge. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Iconic Presuppositions. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe and Lamberton, Jonathan: 2019, Iconic Plurality. Linguistics & Philosophy. [LingBuzz] [published version]

    • Schlenker, Philippe: 2018, Visible Meaning: Sign Language and the Foundations of Semantics. Target article in Theoretical Linguistics 2018 [LingBuzz] [entire issue]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2018, Sign Language Semantics: Problems and Prospects. Theoretical Linguistics 2018 (replies to peer commentaries) [LingBuzz] [entire issue]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Strong Pronominals in ASL and LSF? (Squib) Sign Language & Linguistic. [LingBuzz]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2018, Locative Shift Glossa. [LingBuzz]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2017, Sign Language and the Foundations of Anaphora [Survey Article]. Annual Review of Linguistics 3: 149-77. [LingBuzz]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2017, Super Monsters I: Attitude and Action Role Shift in Sign Language. Semantics & Pragmatics. [LingBuzz]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2017, Super Monsters II: Role Shift, Iconicity and Quotation in Sign Language. Semantics & Pragmatics. [LingBuzz]. [See below for Super Monsters I]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2017, Iconic Enrichments: Signs vs. Gestures [Short Commentary]. Commentary on Goldin-Meadow and Brentari's target article, to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [LingBuzz]

  • Schlenker, Philippe: 2016, Featural Variables. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [LingBuzz] [published version]

  • Schlenker, Philippe; Aristodemo, Valentina; Ducasse, Ludovic; Lamberton, Jonathan; Santoro, Mirko: to appear, The Unity of Focus: Evidence from Sign Language (ASL and LSF). [Squib] Linguistic Inquiry. [LingBuzz]

  • "Gradient and Iconic Features in ASL" (2013) [Squib]. To appear in Snippets. [LingBuzz] (This is a complement to 'Iconic Features').

  • "Iconic Features" (2014). Natural Language Semantics 22(4): 299-356. [LingBuzz]

  • "Iconic Variables" (2013). Schlenker, Philippe; Lamberton, Jonathan; and Santoro, Mirko. Linguistics& Philosophy 36(2): 91-149. [LingBuzz]

  • "A Strong Crossover Effect in ASL" (2012) [squib]. Schlenker, Philippe and Mathur, Gaurav. Snippets 27 [pdf]

  • "Generalized Quantification and Anaphora Across Ontological Domains: Evidence from ASL" [squib]. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Theories of Everything 17(43): 382-388. [pdf]

  • A shorter version is to appear in Snippets under the title: Restrictor Set Readings Across Ontological Domains in ASL [pdf]

  • "Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language" (Summary). Final version to appear in the Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, 2013. [LingBuzz]

  • "Formal Indices and Iconicity in ASL" (2012). Schlenker, Philippe and Lamberton, Jonathan. Logic, Language and Meaning: 18th Amsterdam Colloquium, Springer 7218: 1-11. [LingBuzz]

  • "Complement Set Anaphora and Structural Iconicity in ASL" (2012) [Squib]. Snippets 25. [pdf]

  • "Iconic Agreement" (2011). Invited commentary on Lillo-Martin and Meier's "On the linguistic status of 'agreement' in sign language". Theoretical Linguistics 37(3-4): 223–234. [LingBuzz]

  • "Quantifiers and Variables: Insights from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)" (2010). In Partee, B.H., Glanzberg, M., & Skilters, J. (eds), Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 6(1). [pdf]

  • Note: For a more technical and detailed experience, see "Donkey Anaphora: the View from Sign Language".

  • "Temporal and Modal Anaphora in Sign Language (ASL)" (2013). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 31(1): 207-234. [LingBuzz]

  • "Donkey Anaphora: the View from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)" (2011). Linguistics & Philosophy 34(4): 341-395. [LingBuzz]

  • "Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language I: E-type vs. Dynamic Accounts" (2010). In Logic, Language and Meaning: Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009 (edited by Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz). pp405-415. [LingBuzz]

  • Note: Some more recent data appear in the Appendix of "Quantifiers and Variables" (also available on this page)

  • "Donkey Anaphora in Sign Language II: The Presuppositions of Pronouns". Proceedings of the NELS 2009, Special Session on Pronouns [LingBuzz]

  • Note: Some of the data and analyses also appear in the Appendix of "Quantifiers and Variables" (also available on this page)


Primate Semantics

    • Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel: 2021, Referential and General Calls in Primate Semantics. Linguistics & Philosophy.

    • Dezecache, Guillaume; Bourgeois, Aude; Bazin, Christophe; Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Maille, Audrey: to appear, Orangutans’ Comprehension of Zoo Keepers’ Communicative Signals. Animals (Special Issue "Human Influences on the Behaviour and Welfare of Zoo Animals")

    • Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Zuberbühler, Klaus: to appear, Semantics and Pragmatics of Monkey Communication [Encyclopedia article]. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2016, What do Monkey Calls Mean? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

    • Initial version (very short): LingBuzz

    • Penultimate version (final version to appear in TICS): [pdf]

    • Published version [gated]

    • Schlenker, Philippe;Chemla, Emmanuel; Schel, Anne; Fuller, James ; Gautier, Jean-Pierre; Kuhn, Jeremy ; Veselinovic, Dunja; Arnold, Kate ; Cäsar, Cristiane ; Keenan, Sumir; Lemasson, Alban; Ouattara, Karim; Ryder, Robin ; Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2016, Formal Monkey Linguistics: the Debate. (Replies to commentaries). Appears with a target article in Theoretical Linguistics. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe;Chemla, Emmanuel; Schel, Anne; Fuller, James ; Gautier, Jean-Pierre; Kuhn, Jeremy ; Veselinovic, Dunja; Arnold, Kate ; Cäsar, Cristiane ; Keenan, Sumir; Lemasson, Alban; Ouattara, Karim; Ryder, Robin ; Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2016, Formal Monkey Linguistics.Target article in Theoretical Linguistics. [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Cäsar, Cristiane; Robin Ryder; Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2016, Titi Semantics: Context and Meaning in Titi Monkey Call Sequences. To appear, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory [LingBuzz] [published version]

    • Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Arnold, Kate; Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2016, Pyow-Hack Revisited: Two Analyses of Putty-nosed Monkey Alarm Calls. Lingua 171 (2016) 1--23 [LingBuzz]

    • Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel; Arnold, Kate; Lemasson, Alban; Ouattara, Karim; Keenan, Sumir; Stephan, Claudia; Ryder, Robin; and Zuberbühler, Klaus: 2014, Monkey Semantics: Two 'Dialects' of Campbell's Monkey Alarm Calls. Linguistics & Philosophy 37(6): 439-501 [LingBuzz]


Philosophical Logic

  • "The Property Paradox in (not so) Plain English" (2013). In: Gutzmann, D., Köpping, J. and Meier, C. (eds), Approaches to Meaning. Composition, Values, and Interpretation, pp. 203-219. [LingBuzz]

  • "Super Liars" (2010). Review of Symbolic Logic 3 (3):374-414. [pdf]

  • "Anselm's Argument and Berry's Paradox" (2009). Noûs 43(2): 214–223 . [LingBuzz]

  • "How to Eliminate Self-Reference: A Précis" (12 pages). Synthese 158, 1: 127-138 [LingBuzz]

  • "The Elimination of Self-Reference: Generalized Yablo-Series and the Theory of Truth". Journal of Philosophical Logic 36, 3: 251-307 (57 pages) [LingBuzz]


Formal Pragmatics

• General

  • "The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface". To appear in the Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics, eds. Aloni and Dekker. [LingBuzz]

• Presuppositions and local contexts

  • Schlenker, Philippe. 2020. Inside Out: A Note on the Hierarchical Update of Nominal Modifiers. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 60. 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1130 [LingBuzz]

  • Chemla, Emmanuel and Schlenker, Philippe: 2012, "Incremental vs. Symmetric Accounts of Presupposition Projection: an ExperimentalApproach" Natural Language Semantics 20(2): 177-226.

  • "Maximize Presupposition and Gricean Reasoning". Natural Language Semantics 20(4): 391-429. [LingBuzz]

  • "Presupposition Projection: Two Theories of Local Contexts - Part I" (2011). Language and Linguistics Compass 5(12): 848-857. [LingBuzz]

  • (The article is divided into two parts: Part I introduces the problem of presupposition projection and presents Heim’s theory. Part II lays out the non-dynamic reconstruction of local contexts, and sketches a comparison with DRT.)

  • "Presupposition Projection: Two Theories of Local Contexts - Part II" (2011). Language and Linguistics Compass 5(12): 858-879. [LingBuzz]

    • (This is the second part of the article whose abstract is copied above.)

  • "The Proviso Problem: a Note" (2011). Natural Language Semantics 19(4): 395-422. [LingBuzz]

  • "DRT with Local Contexts" (2011). Natural Language Semantics 19(4): 373-392. [LingBuzz]

  • "Local Contexts and Local Meanings" (2010). Philosophical Studies 151(1): 115-142. (special issue on Stalnaker's 'Assertion') [LingBuzz]

  • "Presupposition Projection: the New Debate", Proceedings of SALT 2008 [pdf]

  • "Presuppositions and Local Contexts" (2010). Mind, 119(474): 377-391. [pdf] [formerly called Local Contexts: A Précis]. [LingBuzz]

  • Note: This article appears in the Philosopher's Annual list of the 'ten best articles' published in philosophy in 2010.

  • "Local Contexts" (2009). Semantics and Pragmatics 2(3): 1–78. [pdf]

    • Note: An earlier version included a much shorter discussion of symmetric readings, but the earlier version contained a more thorough technical treatment of several aspects of the theory (e.g. its Appendix included a systematic comparison with trivalent accounts). This earlier version can be found here.

  • "Presupposition Projection: Explanatory Strategies" (2008). Replies to commentators, Theoretical Linguistics 34(3): 287-316. [pdf]

  • "Be Articulate: A Pragmatic Theory of Presupposition Projection" (2008). Theoretical Linguistics 34(3): 157-212. [pdf] (last modified: November 6, 2008)

  • "Expressive Presuppositions" (2007) (brief commentary on Potts's "Expressive Dimension"), Theoretical Linguistics 33(2): 237–245. [LingBuzz]

  • "Anti-Dynamics: Presupposition Projection Without Dynamic Semantics" (2007). Journal of Logic, Language and Information 16(3): 325-256. [LingBuzz]

  • An 8-page abstract was written (under a different title) for the Proceedings of Logic and Language 9 (August 2006) [pdf]

  • "Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection". In U. Sauerland and P. Stateva (eds), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 [pdf] An Extended Abstract (6 pages) [presenting a somewhat different theory] appeared in the Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2005 [pdf] (last modified: November 16, 2005)


Supplements

  • Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, The Semantics and Pragmatics of Appositives [Handbook Article]. [LingBuzz] In: Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds), Companion to Semantics, Wiley.

  • "Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics I: Scope". Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2009 (edited by Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz, Springer) [LingBuzz]

  • "Supplements within a Unidimensional Semantics II: Epistemic Status and Projection". To appear in the Proceedings of NELS2009 [LingBuzz]


Formal Semantics

  • "Informativity-based Maximality Conditions" (2012) [Squib]. Snippets 26:18-19. [pdf]

  • "Indexicals" [short survey] [pdf] Accepted for publication in the Handbook of Formal Philosophy, edited by Sven Ove Hansson and Vincent F. Hendricks, Springer (last modified: August 2010)

  • "Generalized Bishop Sentences" (2011) [Squib]. Snippets 24 [pdf]

  • "Singular Pronouns with Split Antecedents" (2011) [squib] Snippets 23 (manuscript; last modified: February 2010).

    • "Indexicality and De Se Reports" [Survey Article]. To appear in the Handbook of Semantics edited by von Heusinger, Maienborn and Portner, Mouton de Gruyter [pdf] (near-final version; last modified: February 2010)

    • "Semantics" [Encyclopedia Article]. In Linguistics Encyclopedia, ed. K. Malmkjaer (Routledge), 2010. [pdf]

    • "Minimize Restrictors! (Notes on Definite Descriptions, Condition C and Epithets)", in Bary, Huitink and Maier (eds), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2004, 385-416 [LingBuzz] (last modified: April 5th, 2005; minor improvements)

    • "Ontological Symmetry in Language: A Brief Manifesto". Mind & Language 21, 4: 504-539 (36 pages) [LingBuzz] (last modified: August 8, 2005)

    • "The Lazy Frenchman's Approach to the Subjunctive (Speculations on Reference to Worlds and Semantic Defaults in the Analysis of Mood)". Proceedings of Going Romance XVII [LingBuzz] (last modified: May 5, 2005)

    • Slightly improved slides on the same topic: [pdf] (December 2005)

    • "Scopal Independence: A Note on Branching & Wide Scope Readings of Indefinites & Disjunctions" (2006), Journal of Semantics 23(3): 281-314 (last modified: April 24, 2006 - revised and shortened version) [LingBuzz]

    • "Person and Binding: A Partial Survey" (2004), Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica 16(1): 155-218 [pdf]

    • "Non-Redundancy: Towards A Semantic Reinterpretation of Binding Theory" (2005), Natural Language Semantics 13(1): 1-92 [LingBuzz] (not quite the final version; last modified: August 8th, 2004)

    • "Conditionals as Definite Descriptions (A Referential Analysis)" (2004), Research on Language and Computation, 2(3): 417-162 [LingBuzz] (not quite the final version; last modified: October 5th, 2003)

    • "Context of Thought and Context of Utterance (A Note on Free Indirect Discourse and the Historical Present)" (2004), Mind & Language 19(3):279–304. [LingBuzz] (not quite the final version; last modified: July 30th, 2003)

    • "Sequence Phenomena and Double Access Readings Generalized" (2004), The Syntax of Time, ed. Lecarme & Guéron, MIT Press [LingBuzz] (last modified: August 6th, 2003 [minor corrections])

    • "A Plea for Monsters" (2003), Linguistics & Philosophy 26: 29-120 [LingBuzz]

    • "Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Plural Pronouns" (2003), in Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II (Selected Papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000), ed. J. Lecarme, Benjamins, pp. 409-428, [LingBuzz]

    • "Clausal Equations (A Note on the Connectivity Problem)" (2003), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21: 157-214 [LingBuzz] (not quite the final version)

    • "Sens et Contexte" (2005) [in French], Les Formes de l'Indexicalité, ed. S. Bourgeois-Gironde, Presses de la Rue d'Ulm [pdf]


General Linguistics

  • "A Phonological Condition that Targets Discontinuous Syntactic Units: ma/mon suppletion in French" (2010) [Squib] Snippets 22.

  • "La Grammaire générative entre comparatisme et cognition" (1998) [in French], joint article with A. Rouveret, Langages, 129: 9-23

  • "La Flexion de l'adjectif en allemand: la morphologie de haut en bas" (1999) [in French], Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 28: 115-132 [pdf]


Moral psychology


II. Other [not intended for publication]

    • Propositional Attitudes and Indexicality (A Cross-Categorial Approach), Ph.D Dissertation, MIT, September 1999

    • Full thesis; revised, 2000 [pdf] [NB: there are some typographical problems with transcriptions in this version]

  • "A Simplified Modal Presentation of the 'Non-Redundancy' System" (2004), unpublished note [not intended for publication], UCLA & IJN, 4 pages [pdf] (last modified: August 15th, 2004 [typos corrected])

  • "A Remark on Schlenker's Fallibility and Magri's Blindness." [pdf] 2016, unpublished note [not intended for publication] (last modified: January 28, 2016)

  • Gestural Predicates: Assertions and Presuppositions [Squib]. [LingBuzz] (2016, revised 2017; largely superseded by the later manuscripts 'Gestural Agreement', 'Iconic Pragmatics', and 'Gestural Semantics')