Publications

This page also contains publications from the years prior to the commencement of the PCAN project.

Sutton, P. R. 2024. Individuation criteria and copredication: modification in context. Forthcoming in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Poster
Sutton, P. R. 2024. Types and Type Theories in Natural Language Analysis. Annu. Rev. Linguist. 2024. 10:5.1–5.20. <publisher link

Sutton, P. R. 2023. The origins of vagueness. In: Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, Aleksandre Maskharashvili (eds.), Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory. CSLI. Publisher link.

Sutton, P. R. 2022. Restrictions on copredication: a situation theoretic approach. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32. Link.
Sutton, P. R., H. Filip, T. Snider, and M. Windhearn. 2022. Metaphorical measure expressions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. Proceedings link

Erbach, K., P.R. Sutton, H. Filip, and K. Byrdeck. 2021. "Object Mass Nouns as Arbiter for the Mass/Count Category". 2020. In: J. Pelletier, T. Kiss, and H. Husić (eds.) The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction. CUP.
Sutton, P. R. and H. Filip. 2021. "Container, Portion and Measure Interpretations of Pseudo-Partitive Constructions". In: J. Pelletier, T. Kiss, and H. Husić (eds.) The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction. CUP.
Sutton P. R. and H. Filip. 2021. "The count/mass distinction for granular nouns". In: H. Filip (ed.) Countability in Natural Language. CUP.
Burnett, H., and P. R. Sutton. 2021. "Vagueness and natural language semantics". In D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullman and T.E. Zimmermann. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Sutton, P. R. and C-R Little. 2020. The Finnish partitive in counting and measuring constructions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. <pre-final version>
Sutton, P. R. and H. Filip. 2020. Informational Object Nouns and the mass/count distinction. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. <pre-final version>
Taylor, S. & P. R. Sutton. 2020. A frame-theoretic model of Bayesian category learning. In S. Löbner, T. Gamerschlag, T. Kalenscher, M. Schrenk & H. Zeevat (eds.), Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. Language, Cognition, and Mind series. Springer. <Publisher link, open access>

Erbach, K., P.R. Sutton, and H. Filip. Bare nouns and the Hungarian mass/count distinction. In: A. Silva, S. Staton, P. Sutton, C. Umbach (eds.), Language, Logic, and Computation. TbiLLC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11456. pp. 86-107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. <Pre-final draft>
Rainer Osswald, Christian Retoré & Peter Sutton (eds.). [Edited Volume]. Proceedings of the IWCS 2019 Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures. <ACL Anthology Link>
Silva, S. Staton, P. Sutton & C. Umbach. 2019 (eds.) [Edited Volume]. Language, Logic, and Computation, 12th International Tbilisi Symposium, TbiLLC 2017 (LNCS 11456), Springer. <Publisher Link>
Sutton, P. and H. Filip. 2019. Singular/Plural contrasts: The case of Informational Object Nouns. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp 367–376. <Link to AC Proceedings>

Sutton, P.R. 2018. Probabilistic approaches to vagueness and semantic competency. Erkenntnis 83(4): 711-740. <Publisher Link>
Sutton, P. & H. Filip. Counting constructions and coercion: container, contents and measure interpretations. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa) 10(2): 97-119. <OSLa Link>
Sutton, P. & H. Filip. Restrictions on Subkind Coercion in Object Mass Nouns. In R. Truswell, C. Cummins, C. Heycock, B. Rabern, and H. Rohde (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. University of Edinburgh. pp. 1195-1213.<Semantics Archive>

Erbach, K., P. R. Sutton, H. Filip, & K. Byrdeck. “Object Mass Nouns in Japanese”. In: A. Cremers, T. van Gessel, & F. Roelofsen eds. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium. pp 235-244. <AC Proceedings Link>
Filip, H. & P. Sutton. (2017) “Singular Count NPs in Measure Constructions”. In: D. Burgdorf, J. Collard, S. Maspong & B Stefánsdóttir, SALT 27 (Semantics and Linguistic Theory), University of Maryland, College Park, USA. pp. 340-357. <SALT Proceedings Link>
Sutton, P. & H. Filip. “A probabilistic, mereological account of the mass/count distinction”. In: H. Hansen, S. Murray, M. Sadrzadeh & H. Zeevat (eds.), Logic, Language and Computation, 11th TbiLLC Symposium, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10148. Springer. pp. 146-170. <Publisher Link>
Sutton, P & H. Filip. Individuation, reliability, and the Mass/Count Distinction. Journal of Language Modelling 5(2): 303-352. A special issue edited by Robin Cooper and Christian Retoré. <Open Access Publisher Link>

Sutton, P., Filip, H. “Countability: Individuation and Context”. In: A. Foret, G. Morrill, R. Muskens, R. Osswald, and S. Pogodalla (eds.) Proceedings of Formal Grammar 20th and 21st International conferences. Springer. pp.290-305. <Publisher Link>
Sutton, P., Filip, H. “Counting in context: Count/mass variation and restrictions on coercion in collective artifact nouns”. In: Moroney, Mary, Little, Carol-Rose, Collard, Jacob & Burgdorf, Dan (Eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 350-370. LSA and CLC Publications. <Publisher Link>
Sutton, P., Filip, H. “Mass/count variation, a mereological, two-dimensional semantics”. In: S. Rothstein & J Šķilters (Eds.), The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 11. New Prarie Press. pp. 1-45. <Open Access Publisher Link>
Sutton, P., Filip, H. “Vagueness, overlap, and countability”. In: N. Bade, P. Berezovskaya & A. Schöller (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tübingen. pp. 730-747. <Semantics Archive>