Selected Publications

Publications

• 2008. What is presupposition accommodation, again? Philosophical Perspectives 22(1): 137–170. doi:10.1111/j.1520-8583.2008.00144.x.
• 2008. with Lisa Matthewson. Universals in semantics. The Linguistic Review 25(1-2): 139–201. doi:10.1515/TLIR.2008.004.
• 2008. with Sabine Iatridou. “How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals”. In Jacqueline Guéron and Jacqueline Lecarme (eds.), Time and Modality, Springer, pp. 115-141.
• 2008. with Anthony S. Gillies. “CIA Leaks”. The Philosophical Review, 117(1): 77–98. doi:10.1215/00318108-2007-025.
• 2007. with Anthony S. Gillies. “An Opinionated Guide to Epistemic Modality”. In Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 2, edited by Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne, pp. 32-62. Oxford University Press.
• 2007. with Sabine Iatridou. “Anatomy of a Modal Construction”. Linguistic Inquiry, 38(3):445–483. doi:10.1162/ling.2007.38.3.445. Older, more exploratory and lengthier version appeared as “Anatomy of a Modal” in 2005.
• 2006. “Modality and Language”. In Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Second Edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert. MacMillan.
• 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. “Anatomy of a Modal”. In Jon Gajewski, Valentine Hacquard, Bernard Nickel, Seth Yalcin, eds. New Work on Modality. No. 52 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT.
• 2004. “Would You Believe It? The King of France is Back! Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions”. In Descriptions and Beyond, edited by Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout. Oxford University Press.
• 2003. with Sabine Iatridou. “Epistemic Containment”. Linguistic Inquiry, 34(2): 173–198. doi:10.1162/002438903321663370.
• 2001. “Counterfactuals in a Dynamic Context”. In Ken Hale: A Life in Language, edited by Michael Kenstowicz. MIT Press.
• 2000. “Whatever”. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 10: 27–40.
• 1999. “The Presupposition of Subjunctive Conditionals”. In The Interpretive Tract, edited by Uli Sauerland Orin Percus, no. 25 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 29–44. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL.
• 1999. “NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context Dependency”. Journal of Semantics, 16(2): 97–148. doi:10.1093/jos/16.2.97.
• 1998. “Quantifiers and ‘If’-Clauses”. The Philosophical Quarterly, 48(191): 209–214. doi:10.1111/1467-9213.00095
• 1997. “Bare Plurals, Bare Conditionals, and Only”. Journal of Semantics, 14(1): 1–56. doi:10.1093/jos/14.1.1.
• 1994. Restrictions on Quantifier Domains. Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Drafts, Working Papers, Handouts, etc.

• 2009. with Anthony S. Gillies. “Must … Stay … Strong!. ms, MIT and University of Michigan, submitted to Natural Language Semantics.
• 2008. with Anthony S. Gillies. “Might Made Right”. To appear in a volume on epistemic modality, edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson, Oxford University Press.
• 2007. “If: The Biggest Little Word”. Slides from a plenary address given at the Georgetown University Roundtable, March 8, 2007.
• 2006. “How Ordinary Are Conditionals?”. Slideshow + References, MIT.
• 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. “What to Do If You Want to Go to Harlem: Anankastic Conditionals and Related Matters”. ms, MIT.
• 2005. “Tense in Conditionals”. ms, MIT.
• 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. “Since Since”. ms, MIT.
• 2005. “Postscript to “Whatever” (Comments on Condoravdi)”. Handout from a Talk at LSA Workshop on “Context and Content: Topics in Formal Pragmatics”, July 15, 2005, Cambridge, MA.
• 2005. “Epistemic Modals: A Linguistic Perspective”. Slideshow + References, MIT.
• 2005. “Comments on Kaufmann”. Contribution to the 4th Michigan Workshop on Philosophy and Linguistics, comments on Stefan Kaufmann’s paper “Local and Global Interpretations of Conditionals”, October 29, 2005.
• 2005/1997. “How to Count Situations (Notes Towards a User’s Manual)”. ms, MIT.
• 2004. “How Multi-Dimensional is Quotation?”. ms, MIT. Comments on Chris Potts’ The Dimensions of Quotation, Harvard-MIT-UConn Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Acts, and Logophors, November 20, 2004.
• 2002. with Sabine Iatridou. “If and When If-Clauses Can Restrict Quantifiers”. ms, MIT.
• 2001. “Conditional Strengthening: A Case Study in Implicature”. ms, MIT.
• 2000. “What is Presupposition Accommodation?”. ms, MIT.
• 2000. “Singleton Indefinites (re. Schwarzschild 2000)”. ms, MIT.
• 2000. “Exceptive Constructions”. Seminar Notes, MIT.
• 1999. “Quantifier Domains and Pseudo-Scope”. ms, MIT. Handout of a Talk Given at at Cornell Context-Dependence Conference, March 28, 1999.
• 1999. “Class Notes on Adjectives”. ms, MIT.
• 1999. “Amount Relatives and The Meaning of Chains”. ms, MIT. Handout of a talk given at the University of Edinburgh.
• 1998. “Indicative Conditionals”. Handout from a talk given at Conference on Bridges and Interfaces: Function, Meaning, and Structure at the Charles University Prague (in celebration of its 650th Anniversary), March 1998.