Benjamin Russell recently finished his dissertation at Brown. I was part of his committee (chaired by Polly Jacobson, other members: Larry Horn, Laura Kertz) and learned a lot from working with Ben. He has now posted his thesis to the archive:
- Russell, Benjamin. 2012. Probabilistic reasoning and the computation of scalar implicatures. Providence, RI: Brown University PhD dissertation. http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/WY1YTRhM/russell2012probabilistic.pdf.
Anybody interested in the formalization and understanding of pragmatic mechanisms should read this thesis.