Craige Roberts: Some papers and manuscripts


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 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]


on 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. [preprint]

Retrievability and incomplete descriptions. [manuscript]

Names as definites. [manuscript]


on Information Structure, Focus, Presupposition, and Topics:

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, 2012. [1998 revision] [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. To appear in the proceedings of SALT 2010. [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.

Solving for interpretation: Talk given at the Workshop on Meaning and Understanding at the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, June, 2011. [preprint]


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