Craige Roberts: Some papers and manuscripts

Papers 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]

Papers on Anaphora, Definiteness, and Specificity:

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

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.

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

Specificity and incomplete descriptions. [Handout from a talk at Mass/Amherst, March, 2007]

Papers on Information Structure, Focus, and Presupposition:

Domain Selection in Dynamic Semantics. In Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee (eds.) Quantification in Natural Languages, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995.

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. [1998 revision]

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

Focus, the Flow of Information, and Universal Grammar. In Peter Culicover and Louise McNally (eds.) The Limits of Syntax, Academic Press, 1998.

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. Co-author with Patricia Matos Amaral and E. Allyn Smith). To appear in Linguistics and Philosophy. [preprint]

Resolving Focus. [handout from BLS 08]

Discourse. In Robert A. Wilson and Franck C. Keil (eds.) The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, 1999.

Presupposition. In Robert A. Wilson and Franck C. Keil (eds.) The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, 1999.

Formal Pragmatics. In Lynn Nadel (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan/Nature Press, London, 2003.

Other:

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