Publications
Under Submission / In Revision
“Adverbs of Change and Dynamicity.”
“Question Bias from Polarity Focus.” (with Cory Bill)
Book
(2022). Parenthetical Meaning. Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. OUP. [chapter 1]
Note: Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting online the entire book, but the pre-publication draft is available upon request.
Journal Articles
(To appear). “An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe.” Linguistic Inquiry.
(2023). “Gradient At-issueness vs. Uncertainty about Binary At-issueness.” Theoretical Linguistics 49(3–4): 249–260. doi: 10.1515/tl-2023-2012 [preprint]
(2021). “Parentheticality, Assertion Strength, and Polarity.” Linguistics and Philosophy 44: 113–140. doi: 10.1007/s10988-019-09285-4 [preprint]
(2018). “Notions of At-issueness.” Language and Linguistics Compass 12(12): 1–16. doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12306 [preprint]
(2017). “Quotational Indefinites.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 35(2): 367–396. doi: 10.1007/s11049-016-9344-x [preprint]
(2017). “Evidentiality, Learning Events, and Spatiotemporal Distance: The View from Bulgarian.” Journal of Semantics 34(1): 1–41. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffv014 [preprint]
(2015). “Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives.” (with Kristen Syrett) Journal of Semantics 32(3): 525–577. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffu007 [preprint]
(2015). “An ‘Antiproviso Problem’ for Appositive Relative Clauses.” Snippets 29(4): 11–12. doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-koev
Book Chapters
(Under contract). “Meaning Projection.” In L. Mayol et al. (eds.): Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces. Cambridge University Press.
(2023). “Bias in Tag Questions.” (with Cory Bill) To appear in A. Benz et al. (eds.): Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling. Language Science Press. [preprint]
(2019). “Adverbs of Change.” In D. Altshuler and J. Rett (eds.): The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times. Essays in Honor of Roger Schwarzschild. Springer, 283–303. [preprint]
Note: A shorter version of this paper appeared in Semantics And Linguistic Theory 27: 22–42, LSA.
Conference Proceedings
(To appear). “Speaker Attitudes Predict Epistemic Biases in Polar Questions: Evidence from Farsi.” (with Maryam Mohammadi) West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 42. [abstract]
(2023). “Vanilla Rules: The ‘no ice cream’ construction.” (with Felix Frühauf, Hadil Karawani, Natasha Korotkova, Doris Penka, and Daniel Skibra) Sinn und Bedeutung 27: 209-227, Open Journal Systems.
(2022). “Really: Ambiguity and Question Bias.” (with Cory Bill) Sinn und Bedeutung 26: 130–148, Open Journal Systems.
(2021). “Verum Accent is VERUM, but Not Always Focus.” (with Cory Bill) Linguistic Society of America 6(1): 188–202, LSA.
(2021). “Believe is Strong but Subjective: Experimental Evidence from Hedging.” (with Cory Bill and Maryam Mohammadi) Sinn und Bedeutung 25: 497–514, Open Journal Systems.
(2019). “Strong Beliefs, Weak Commitments.” Sinn und Bedeutung 23(2): 1–18, semanticsarchive.
(2017). “Parentheticality, Assertion Strength, and Discourse.” Sinn und Bedeutung 21: 679–694, semanticsarchive.
(2016). “On Quotational Indefinites.” Sinn und Bedeutung 20: 412–423, semanticsarchive.
(2016). “The Shiftability of German Appositive Relatives across Intensional Contexts: Two Experimental Studies.” West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 33: 237–245, Cascadilla.
(2014). “Two Puzzles about Appositives: Projection and Perspective Shift.” Sinn und Bedeutung 18: 217–234, semanticsarchive.
(2012). “On the Information Status of Appositive Relative Clauses.” Amsterdam Colloquium 18: 401–410, Springer. [preprint]
(2011). “Evidentiality and Temporal Distance Learning.” Semantics And Linguistic Theory 21: 115–134, eLanguage.
(2011). “Definiteness as Agreement: Evidence from Bulgarian.” West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 28: 133–141, Cascadilla.