Most of the papers that can be downloaded on this page are made accessible in their final prepublication form - for published versions, please consult the official publication venues of the papers.
Egré, Paul, Spector, Benjamin, Mortier, Adèle & Steven Verheyen (2020), On the Optimality of Vagueness: “Around”, “Between” and the Gricean Maxims
With Emile Enguehard (2019). Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages - A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle. Submitted.
With Anouk Dieuleveut [first author] and Emmanuel Chemla (2019). Distinctions between primary and secondary scalar implicatures. Journal of Memory and Language, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.008
Maldonado, Mora, Chemla, Emmanuel and Benjamin Spector, Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast, Cognition, vol. 182: p. 171-176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009
Modified numerals (handbook article), to appear in the Wiley Companion to Semantics (eds. Matthewson, Meier, Rullmann, Zimmermann).
The pragmatics of plural predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act model, in Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, December 2017
With Manuel Križ, Interpreting Plural Predication: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality, under revision.
With Mora Maldonado [first author] and Emmanuel Chemla, Priming methods in semantics and pragmatics, to appear in Behavioral and Brain Science. [Commentary on Branigan, H., & Pickering, M. (2016). An experimental approach to linguistic representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-73]
With Emmanuel Chemla and Paul Egré, Characterizing logical consequence in many-valued logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, doi: 10.1093/logcom/exx001.
With Mora Maldonado [first author] and Emmanuel Chemla, Priming plural ambiguities [final pre-publication draft] , Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 95, August 2017, Pages 89-101, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.02.002.
With Tal Linzen [first author] and Emmanuel Dupoux, Quantificational features in distributional word representations, Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2016), pages 1–11, Berlin, Germany.
With Brian Buccola, Modified numerals and maximality [published version], Linguistics and Philosophy, published on line in June 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9187-2 - View-only final published version: http://rdcu.be/npul.
With Danny Fox, Economy and Embedded Exhaustification, Natural Language Semantics (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6.
With Yasutada Sudo, Presupposed ignorance and exhaustivity: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact, Linguistics and Philosophy, published on-line in May 2017, doi:10.1007/s10988-017-9208-9
Comparing Exhaustivity Operators (Minimal Worlds vs. Innocent Exclusion). Semantics and Pragmatics 9:11, 2016, doi:10.3765/sp.9.11
With Paul Egré, A Uniform Semantics for Embedded Interrogatives: An answer, not necesarily the answer. Synthese, 2015, doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0722-4
Multivalent semantics for vagueness and presupposition, Topoï, published on line 25 Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1007/s11245-014-9292-1
Global Positive Polarity Items and Obligatory Exhaustivity, Semantics and Pragmatics 7:11, p. 1-61, doi:10.3765/sp.7.11, published on November 25, 2014.
With Paul Marty [first author] and Emmanuel Chemla, Phantom readings: the case of modified numerals, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, doi:10.1080/23273798.2014.931592, published on line on June 27, 2014.
Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge – Comments on Magri (2011), In Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures (Ed. Salvatore Pistoia Reda). Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. 146-169, January 2014.
With Paul Marty [first author] and Emmanuel Chemla, Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load, Lingua, 133: 152-163. 2013.
Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures, Language and Linguistics Compass, 2013.
With Clemens Mayr, Generalized Scope Economy - Not Too Strong!, Ms., March 2012.
Being simultaneously an NPI and a PPI: a bipolar item in French, in Snippets 25, March 2012.
With Dominique Sportiche, Does QR really obey the Coordinate Structure Constraint? [Squib], Un published Ms. September 2012.
With Emmanuel Chemla, Experimental Evidence for Embedded Scalar Implicatures, in Journal of Semantics 28(3), 2011. [A much shorter version of this paper appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6042/2010, 53-62]
With Marta Abrusan, A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and their Obviation, in Journal of Semantics 28(1), 2011 [Near-final draft of the published paper] . A much shorter and significantly different version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. Natasha Abner & Jason Bishop]
With Clemens Mayr, Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition, in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14 (2009). [posted on May, 6, 2010]
With Gennaro Chierchia & Danny Fox, Hurford's Constraint and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures, in Paul Egré & Giorgio Magri, eds. Presuppositions and Implicatures. Proceedings of the MIT-Paris Workshop, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 60, 2009.
With Gennaro Chierchia & Danny Fox, The Grammatical View of Scalar Implicatures and the Relationship between Semantics and Pragmatics, An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, eds. Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn et Klaus von Heusinger, Mouton de Gruyter.
An unnoticed reading for wh-questions: quantified elided answers and weak islands, In Linguistic Inquiry 39(4), 2008.
Modalized Questions and Exhaustivity, in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17 (SALT 17), CLC publications, Cornell University, 2007.
Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures Published with minor changes in U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (eds.), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning, In M. Aloni, A. Butler & P. Dekker (eds.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Elsevier, 2007.
"Implicature Scalaire" In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (éd.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, GDR Sémantique & Modéisation, CNRS, http://www.semantique-gdr.net/dico/
Exhaustive interpretations: what to say and what not to say, Unpublished paper, presented at the LSA workshop on Context and Content, Cambridge, July 15, 2005.
With Ora Matushansky, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, in Emar Maier, Corien Bary & Janneke Huitink, eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, 2005
Some indefinites are positive polarity items in subject position only, Short squib published in Snippets 9, 2004
Pseudo weak crossover in French relative clauses & global economy, in Actes des Journées d'Etudes Linguistiques de Nantes, 5-7 mai 2004
Distributivity & Specific Indefinites, in S. Blaho et al. (eds), Proceedings of CONSOLE XII
Plural indefinites as PLURAL-polarity items, in Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001, eds. Quer & al., 2003, John Benjamins