Crosslinguistic 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.
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.
1995. Quantification in Eskimo: A challenge for compositional semantics. In: Quantification in Natural Languages (E. Bach et al., eds.), pp. 59–80. Kluwer.
1995. Remarks on definiteness in Warlpiri. In: Quantification in Natural Languages (E. Bach et al., eds.), pp. 81–106. Kluwer. (with Ken Hale)
1987. On the semantics of the Greenlandic antipassive and related constructions. International Journal of American Linguistics 53:194–231.
Dynamic implementations (with context change)
2014. Temporality: Universals and Variation. Wiley-Blackwell.
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.
2011. Time and modality without tenses or modals. In: Tense across Languages (R. Musan and M. Rathert, 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: SFB 340 Working Papers: Linguistic Theory & the Foundations of Computational Linguistics, Report Nr. 143.
Static implementations (without context change)
1998. Cross-linguistic semantics for questions. Linguistics and Philosophy 21:1–82.
1994. Case, Scope, and Binding. Springer.
1994. Cross-linguistic semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy 17:53–108.
1988. Canonical and non-canonical argument expressions. PhD thesis. University of Texas at Austin.
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