Craige Roberts


Craige Roberts: Some papers and manuscripts


recent papers:

The indexical Character of epistemic modality.[preprint] Linguistics and Philosophy 46(5):1219-1267.

Imperatives in dynamic pragmatics. [preprint] Semantics & Pragmatics 16, DOI https://doi.org/k6sg.

Preconditions and projection: Explaining non-anaphoric presupposition. With Mandy Simons. [preprint] To appear in Linguistics and Philosophy.

Linguistic convention and the architecture of interpretation. [preprint] Analytic Philosophy 58.4:418-439, 2017.

The architecture of interpretation: Dynamic pragmatics and pragmatic competence. [manuscript] The Beth Lecture at the 2022 Amsterdam Colloquium.

Coherence, salience and anaphora. Ms. based on an invited lecture at the 2016 NASSLLI/Rutgers workshop on Coherence and Anaphora, organized by Daniel Altshuler and Sam Cumming. [manuscript]


on semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language:

 Accommodation in a language game. [preprint]. In Barry Loewer & Jonathan Schaffer (eds.) A Companion to David Lewis, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2015.

Review of Robert Stalnaker Context, Oxford University Press, 2014. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2016.06.20.

Linguistic convention and the architecture of interpretation. [preprint] Analytic Philosophy 58.4:418-439, 2017.

The architecture of interpretation: Dynamic pragmatics and pragmatic competence. [manuscript] The Beth Lecture at the 2022 Amsterdam Colloquium.

Ontology via semantics? Introduction to the special issue on the semantics of  cardinal numbers. [preprint]. with Stewart Shapiro. In Linguistics and Philosophy 40.4:321-329.

Speech acts in discourse context. [preprint] In Daniel Fogal, Daniel Harris & Matt Moss (eds.) New Work on Speech Acts, Oxford University Press, 2018, 317-359.

Open texture and analyticity. with Stewart Shapiro. In Dejan Makovec & Stewart Shapiro (eds.) Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 189-210, 2019.

 


on know-how:

know-how: A compositional approach. In Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne (eds.) Theory and Evidence in Semantics, CSLI Press, 2009 [preprint]


on modality and modal subordination:

Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy 12.6:683-721, 1989. Reprinted in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.) Semantics: Critical concepts in linguistics, Routledge, 2003.[scan]

Anaphora in intensional contexts. In Shalom Lappin (ed.) The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Basil Blackwell, 1996. [scan]

Modal subordination: It would eat you first. [preprint] In press in Lisa Matthewson, Cecile Meier, Hotze Rullmann & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.) Companion to Semantics. Wiley.

The Character of epistemic modality.[preprint] Linguistics and Philosophy 46(5):1219-1267.


on reference, anaphora, and the semantics of definite noun phrases:

Uniqueness in definite noun phrases. Linguistics and Philosophy 26:287-350, 2003. [scan]

Demonstratives as definites. In K. van Deemter & Roger Kibble (eds.) Information Sharing: Reference and Presupposition in Language Generation and Interpretation. CSLI Press, Stanford, 89-196, 2002. [preprint]

Pronouns as definites. In M. Reimer & A. Bezuidenhout (eds.) Descriptions and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2005. [preprint]

Names as definites. [manuscript]

Contextual influences on reference. [preprint] In Barbara Abbott & Jeannette Gundel (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Reference. Oxford University Press, 2018, 260-280.

Modal subordination: It would eat you first. [preprint] In Daniel Gutzmann, Lisa Matthewson, Cecile Meier, Hotze Rullmann & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.) Companion to Semantics. Wiley, 2021.

 


on information structure, focus, presupposition, and topicality:

Bibliography of Work on Relevance and the Question Under Discussion

Domain selection in dynamic semantics. In Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee (eds.) Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995.[scan]

Information Structure: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics. In Jae Hak Yoon and Andreas Kathol (eds.) OSUWPL Volume 49: Papers in Semantics, 1996. The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics. The 1998 version appears with a new Afterword in Semantics and Pragmatics version, 2012. [Semantics & Pragmatics version] [2012 Afterword]

Context in dynamic interpretation. In Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.) Handbook of Contemporary Pragmatic Theory, Blackwell, 2004. [scan]

Focus, the flow of information, and Universal Grammar. In Peter Culicover and Louise McNally (eds.) The Limits of Syntax, Academic Press, 1998. [scan]

An integrated approach to reference and presupposition resolution. With Robert T. Kasper and Paul C. Davis. Proceedings of the ACL '99 Workshop on the Relationship between Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference, 1999, College Park, Maryland. [paper]

Only: Presupposition and implicature. [preprint]

Review of The Logic of Conventional Implicature by Chris Potts. With Patricia Matos Amaral and E. Allyn Smith. Linguistics and Philosophy 30:707-749. [preprint]

Presupposition, Conventional Implicature, and beyond: A unified account of projection. With Mandy Simons, David Beaver, and Judith Tonhauser. Talk at ESSLLI Workshop on Presupposition, July, 2009. [manuscript]

Topics. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger & Paul Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, volume 33.2, pp.1908-1934. Mouton de Gruyter. [preprint]

What projects and why. With Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser and David Beaver. In Nan Li & David Lutz (eds.) (2010) Proceedings of SALT 20, pp.309-327. [preprint]

only: A case study in projective meaning. In Partee, Glanzberg and Skilters (eds.) Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models, The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Volume 6, 2011, Riga, Latvia.

Towards a taxonomy of projective content. [open access] . With Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver and Mandy Simons. Language 89.1:66-109. Awarded Best Paper in Language for 2013 by the Linguistic Society of America.

The Best Question: Explaining the projection behavior of factive verbs. With Mandy Simons, David Beaver & Judith Tonhauser. Discourse Processes 54.3:187-206.

Preconditions and Projection: Explaining non-anaphoric presupposition. With Mandy Simons. [manuscript] Accepted by Linguistics and Philosophy.


on aspect and aktionsarten:

Spanish imperfecto and preterito: Truth conditions and aktionsart effects in a situation semantics. With Alicia Cipria. Natural Language Semantics 8.4:297-347, 2000.[scan]


dissertation:

Modal Subordination, Anaphora, and Distributivity. Garland Press, 1990.[scan]


Craige Roberts