Dynamic semantics

Phenomena & basic ideas

in press. Topic states in Mandarin discourse. In: NACCL 25: Proceedings of the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Ohio University Press. [slides]
2014. Perspectival discourse referents for indexicals. In: SULA 7: Proceedings of the 7th Meeting on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas. CreateSpace. [slides]
2008. Quantification as reference: Evidence from Q-verbs. In: Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (L. Matthewson, ed.), pp. 7–66. Emerald (with Naja Trondhjem)
2008. Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora. In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect (S. Rothstein, ed.), pp. 349–85. John Benjamins.
2006. Ontology for human talk and thought (not robotics). Theoretical Linguistics 32:47–56.
2005. Future discourse in a tenseless language. Journal of Semantics 22:339–87.

2014. Temporality: Universals and Variation. Wiley-Blackwell.
2011. Time and modality without tenses or modals. In: Tense across Languages (R. Musan and M. Rathers, eds.), pp. 147–88. Niemeyer.
2010. Conditionals as attitude reports. Rutgers manuscript.
2009. Tense, mood, and centering. Rutgers manuscript.

2007. Online update: Temporal, modal, and de se anaphora in polysynthetic discourse. In: Direct Compositionality (C. Barker and P. Jacobson, eds.), pp. 363–404. OUP.
2003. Word order and incremental update. In: CLS 39-1: Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 1, pp. 634–64. Chicago Linguistic Society.
2001. Topical referents for individuals and possibilities. In: SALT XI: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, pp. 36–55. CLC, Ithaca.
2001. Surface composition as bridging. Journal of Semantics 18:127–77.

1999. Concealed causatives. Natural Language Semantics 7:1–78.
1999. Tense and aspect in cross-linguistic semantics. In: Working Papers of SFB 340: Linguistic Foundations for Computational Linguistics, Report Nr. 143.