Judith Tonhauser's papers

Journal papers

• in preparation	"Evidentiality, projection and at-issueness: Reportative evidentiality in Paraguayan Guaraní".
  in preparation	"Contrastive topics in Paraguayan Guaraní discourse".
  under review	"Towards a taxonomy of projective content", Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons, please contact me for the manuscript.
  under review	"Temporal anaphora of noun phrases", please contact me for the manuscript.
  under revision	"The syntax and semantics of Yucatec Mayan focus constructions".
  in print	"The prosody of focus in Paraguayan Guaraní", Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser, to appear in International Journal of American Linguistics , please contact me for the manuscript.
  2011	"Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language", Linguistics & Philosophy: 34(3):257-303. [doi]
  2010	"The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní", Cory Shain and Judith Tonhauser, Language Variation and Change 22(3): 321-346. [doi]
  2010	"Temporal interpretation without tense: Coordination constructions in Korean and Japanese", Jungmee Lee and Judith Tonhauser, Journal of Semantics 27(3): 307-341. [doi]
  2010	"Word order in Paraguayan Guaraní", Judith Tonhauser and Erika Colijn, International Journal of American Linguistics 76(2): 255-288. [doi]
  2008	"Defining cross-linguistic categories: The case of nominal tense. Reply to Nordlinger and Sadler (2008);". Language 84(2): 332-342. [doi]
  2007	''Nominal tense? The meaning of Guaraní nominal temporal markers'', Language 83(4): 831-869. [doi]

Papers in edited volumes

• to appear	"Semantics of inflection", with Paul Kiparsky, for Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner (eds.).
  2011	"The Paraguayan Guaraní future marker -ta : Formal semantics and cross-linguistic comparison", in Tense Across Languages , Rathert, Monika and Renate Musan (eds.), Tübingen: Niemeyer. [preprint (.pdf)]
  2011	''Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses'', with Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee and Anastasia Smirnova, Cahier Chronos: Selected Proceedings of Chronos 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi. [preprint (.pdf)]

Conference proceedings and theses

• 2011c	''Diagnosing (not-)at-issue content", Judith Tonhauser. In Proceedings of Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 6 [preprint .pdf]
  2011b	''What projects and why", with David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20, 309-327, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [published version]
  2011a	''On the prosodic coding of focus in Paraguayan Guaraní", with Cynthia G. Clopper. In Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 249-257. [preprint .pdf] [published version]
  2010	''Is Paraguayan Guaraní a Tenseless Language?" In Proceedings of Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 5. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, 227-242. [preprint .pdf]
  2009c	''Presupposition, conventional implicature, and beyond: A unified account of projection", Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons, David Beaver and Judith Tonhauser, in N. Klinedinst and D. Rothschild (eds.) Proceedings of New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition, ESSLLI, Toulouse. [PDF]
  2009b	''Counterfactuality and future time reference: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní mo'ã'', Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, 527-541.
  2009a	''On the cross-linguistic interpretation of embedded tenses'', with Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee and Anastasia Smirnova, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, pages 307-320.
  2007b	''Agent focus and voice in Yucatec Maya'', Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 15 pages. [preprint (.pdf)]
  2007a	''What is nominal tense? A case study of Paraguayan Guaraní'', in Becker, M. and McKenzie, A. (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics of Under-represented Languages (SULA) III , Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications.
  2006	''The temporal interpretation of noun phrases: Evidence from Guaraní'', Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University.
  2005	''Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense'', in Maier, E., Bary, C. and Huitink, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference , Nijmegen: Nijmegen Center for Semantics, 475-488.
  2003b	''On the syntax and semantics of content questions in Yucatec Maya'', in Castillo, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on American Indian Languages (WAIL) , Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, vol. 14, 106-121. [preprint (.pdf)]
  2003a	''F-constructions in Yucatec Maya'', in Anderssen, J., and Menéndez-Benito, P. and Werle, A. (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) II , Amherst, MA: Graduate Linguistics Students Association Publications, 203-223.
  2002b	''A dynamic semantic account of the temporal interpretation of Noun Phrases'', in Jackson, B. (ed.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XII , Ithaca: Cornell Linguistics Circle Publications, 286-305.
  2002a	''Treating polarity sensitivity by lexical underspecification: Motivation from semantic scope'', in Rapp, R. (ed.) Linguistics on the Way into the Third Millenium. Proceedings of the 34th Linguistics Colloquium , Bern: Peter Lang, 829-837.
  2000b	Dynamic Semantics and the Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases , Diploma Thesis, University of Stuttgart; published as SFB 340 report no. 159 (122 pages).
  2000a	''An approach to polarity sensitivity and negative concord by lexical underspecification'', in Flickinger, D. and Kathol, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar , Stanford: CSLI Publications, 285-304.
  1996	with Carl Vogel, ''Psychological constraints on plausible default inheritance reasoning'', in Aiello, L. and Shapiro, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning , Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann, 608-619.

Reviews

• 2006	Time in Natural Language. Thompson, E. (2005), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; reviewed for Linguist List (July 28).
  2005	The Grammar of Time Reference in Yukatek Maya. Bohnemeyer, J. (2002), Munich: LINCOM; in Language 81, pp. 1000-01.
  2003	Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Portner, P. and Partee H., B. (2002) London: Blackwell; reviewed for Linguist List (February 6).