RECENT MANUSCRIPTS
RECENT MANUSCRIPTS
General
Lyn Tieu, Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton, Emmanuel Chemla: 2025, Grammar across perceptual dimensions. Manuscript. [LingBuzz]
Chemla, Emmanuel; Charnavel, Isabelle; Dautriche, Isabelle; Embick, David; Lerdahl, Fred; Patel-Grosz, Pritty; Poeppel, David; Schlenker, Philippe: 2023, Formal Models at the Core. Cognitive Science [Wiley]
Patel-Grosz, Pritty; Mascarenhas, Salvador; Chemla, Emmanuel; Schlenker, Philippe: 2023, Super Linguistics: an Introduction. Introduction to a special issue of Linguistics & Philosophy devoted to Super Linguistics. [LingBuzz] [Springer]
Pragmatics
Schlenker, Chatain: 2026, Parasuppositions [LingBuzz]
Keny Chatain, Philippe Schlenker: to appear, Local Pragmatics Redux: Presupposition Accommodation Without Covert Operators. Natural Language Semantics. [LingBuzz]
Chatain, Keny and Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, On the Syntactic Reality of Pragmatic Operators: the Case of Non-Redundancy. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa. [LingBuzz]
Chatain, Keny and Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, Janus Sentences: A Puzzle for Theories of Local Implicatures. Journal of Semantics [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe: 2023, Supplements without Bidimensionalism. Linguistic Inquiry. [LingBuzz] [jhu] (Older, rather different and longer version, 2013: [pdf])
Gestures
Schlenker, Philippe: to appear, The Meaning and Grammar of Pure Gestures: Theoretical Insights. Annual Reivew of Linguistics. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe: 2023, On the Typology of Iconic Contributions. Invited commentary on Barnes and Ebert's "The information status of iconic enrichments: Modelling gradient at-issueness". To appear, Theoretical Linguistics. [LingBuzz]
Sign Language
Schlenker, Philippe; Lamberton, Jason; Lamberton, Jonathan: Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift: Super Monsters Revisited. Accepted with minor revisions, Linguistics & Philosophy. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe Lamberton, Jason Lamberton, Jonathan: 2026, Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Lamberton, Jason; Lamberton, Jonathan: to appear, The Inferential Typology of Language: Insights from Sign Language (ASL). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Lamberton, Jonathan; Kuhn, Jeremy: 2024, Sign Language Semantics [survey article]. To appear, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe, and Jonathan Lamberton: 2024, Iconological semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy 47.5 (2024): 779-838. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Bonnet, Marion; Lamberton, Jonathan; Lamberton, Jason; Chemla, Emmanuel; Santoro, Mirko; Geraci, Carlo: 2024, Iconic Syntax: Sign Language Classifier Predicates and Gesture Sequences. Linguistics & Philosophy. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Lamberton, Jason; Lamberton, Jonathan: 2023, The Inferential Typology of Language: Insights from Sign Language. [LingBuzz]
Animal Linguistics
Schlenker, Philippe Mathevon, Nicolas Hagiwara, Masato Pietquin, Olivier Chemla, Emmanuel: 2026, Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication. [LingBuzz]
Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton, Nur Lan, Jason Lamberton, Carlo Geraci, Ambre Salis, Lucie Ravaux, Christoph Grüter, Robin Ryder, Emmanuel Chemla: to appear, Ancestral Iconicity: The Dance Language of Bees Revisited. Biological Reviews. [LingBuzz]
Philippe Schlenker, Christina Pawlowitsch, Luc Arnal, Keny Chatain, Lucie Ravaux, Robin Ryder, Ambre Salis, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Léo Wang, Emmanuel Chemla: to appear, Ancestral Meanings: A Prelude to Evolutionary Animal Linguistics. Linguistics & Philosophy. [LingBuzz]
Philippe Schlenker, Camille Coye, Ambre Salis, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Lucie Ravaux, Emmanuel Chemla: to appear, Anti-Babel: Three Degrees of Interspecies Comprehension. Mind & Language. [LingBuzz]
Cauté, Maxime, Philippe Schlenker and Emmanuel Chemla. "Inconsistent effects of components as evidence for non-compositionality in chimpanzee face-gesture combinations? A response to Oña et al (2019)." PeerJ 12 (2024): e16800. [Peerj] (Due to an error, the journal lists Schlenker as the last author.)
Coye, Camille, Dunja Veselinović, Agnès Candiotti, Philippe Schlenker, Alban Lemasson, and Emmanuel Chemla. "Female Diana Monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) have Complex Calls." Linguistic Inquiry (2024). [hal]
Salis, Ambre; Molina, Axel; Mephane-Montel, Laura; Chaine, Alexis; Schlenker, Philippe; Chemla, Emmanuel: accepted with minor revisions, No effect of note order on the response of coal tits to conspecific, heterospecific and artificial mobbing calls. Ethology. [wiley]
Schlenker, Philippe; Pawlowitsch, Christina; Arnal, Luc; Chatain, Keny; Ravaux, Lucie; Ryder, Robin; Salis, Ambre; Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Wang, Léo; Chemla, Emmanuel: accepted with minor revisions. Ancestral Meanings: a Prelude to Evolutionary Animal Linguistics. Linguistics & Philosophy. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Salis, Ambre; Leroux, Maël; Coye, Camille; Rizzi, Luigi; Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Chemla, Emmanuel: 2024, Minimal Compositionality versus Bird Implicatures: Two Theories of ABC-D Sequences in Japanese Tits. To appear, Biological Reviews [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Coye, Camille; Salis, Ambre; Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Ravaux, Lucie Chemla, Emmanuel: 2023, Anti-Babel: Three Degrees of Interspecies Comprehension. To appear, Mind & Language. [LingBuzz]
Schlenker, Philippe; Coye, Camille; Leroux, Maël; Chemla, Emmanuel: 2023, The ABC-D of Animal Linguistics: Are Syntax and Compositionality for Real? Biological Reviews [LingBuzz]
Music Semantics
Migotti Ramponi; Schlenker; Chemla: 2026, How Music Refers: Music Semantics and Cross-Modal Correspondences [LingBuzz]