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A note on local accommodation

(2014, In Luka Crnic and Uli Sauerland (eds.), The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, vol. 2, MITWPL 71, pp. 155-173)

A note on presupposition accommodation (with Roni Katzir)

(Semantics & Pragmatics, 6(5), p.1-13, 2013)

A Note on the Absence of XOR in Natural Language (with Roni Katzir)

(In P. Egre and G. Magri (eds.), Proceedings of MIT-Paris Workshop on Presupposition and Implicature, MITWPL60, Cambridge, MA, p.123-134, 2009)

Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts (with Evelina Fedorenko, Kyle Mahowald and Edward Gibson)

(Cognitive Science, 40(3), pp. 607-634, 2016)

Assertability Constraints and Absurd Assertions

(Manuscript, 2007)

Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for the theories of implicature and child development (with Kenneth Wexler, Andrea Astle-Rahim, Deepthi Kamawar, and Danny Fox)

Natural Language Semantics, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 305-352

Constraints on the Lexicalization of Logical Operators (with Roni Katzir)

(Linguistics & Philosophy, 36(1), p. 1-29, 2013)

Context, content, and the occasional costs of implicature computation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02214

Detecting presupposition failure and accommodation with EEG (with Proceedings Alice Xia, Roxana-Maria Barbu, Kathleen van Benthem, Daniel DiGio- vanni, and Ida Toivonen)

In Ashok Goel and Colleen Seifert and Christian Freksa (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.3129-3135, 2019

Distributive Possessors in Swedish and Norwegian: Binding, Agreement, and Quantification (with Helge Lodrup and Ida Toivonen)

In Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’19 Conference, pp. 170–190, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2019

Economy of structure and information: oddness, questions, and answers (with Roni Katzir)

(In Eva Csipak and Hedde Zeijlstra (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19, p.302-319, 2015.)

Formal Alternatives as a Solution to the Proviso Problem

(In Proceedings of SALT 17, p. 264-281, 2007)

Hurford disjunctions: embedded exhaustification and structural economy (with Roni Katzir)

(Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeuting 18, 2014, p.201-216)

Matrix and embedded presuppositions

In Daniel Gutzmann, Lisa Matthewson, Cecile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, pp. 1751-1792, 2020.

Maximize Presupposition and Informationally Encapsulated Implicatures

(In Arndt Riester and Torgram Solstad (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart, p.513-526, 2009)

Maximize Presupposition and Local Contexts

(Natural Language Semantics, 19(2), p.149-168, 2011)

Oddness and Ignorance Inferences

(Slightly revised version of handout for talk presented at MOSAIC 2, McGill University, Montreal, June 1 2010)

On Some Missing Logical Operators in Natural Language (with Roni Katzir)

(Handout of colloquium presentation delivered to the Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Nov 19 2009)

On the Interpretation of Disjunction: Asymmetric, Incremental, and Eager for Inconsistency

(Linguistics and Philosophy, 31, p. 245-260, 2008)

On the morphosyntactic representation of dependent quantification: distance distributivity, dependent indefinites, and Skolemization (with Dejan Milacic and Ida Toivonen)

(In Eva Csipak and Hedde Zeijlstra (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19, p.411-425, 2015)

On the Structure Sensitivity of the Alternatives for Accommodation

Presupposition and Selectional Restrictions

(A squib on McCawley's idea that selectional restrictions should be treated as presuppositions, 2007)

Presupposition projection: Global accommodation, local accommodation, and scope ambiguities

(Handbook article, under review, 2015)

Presuppositions: Ambiguity, Accommodation, and Cancellation

(Handout of Manuscript in Progress, 2010)

Remarks on the experimental turn in the study of scalar implicature, Parts I and II (with Emmanuel Chemla)

(2014, Language and Linguistics Compass, 8(9), Part I: p.373-386, Part II: p.387-399)

Symmetric and Interacting Alternatives for Implicature and Accommodation

(In N. Klinedinst and D. Rothschild (eds.), Proceedings of ESSLLI 2009 Workshop: New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition)

Symmetric and Interacting Alternatives for Implicature and Accommodation

(Extended Handout of Manuscript in Progress, 2009)

Training and timing local scalar enrichments under global pragmatic pressures (with Emmanuel Chemla and Chris Cummins)

Journal of Semantics, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 107–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffw006

Two restrictions on possible connectives

(UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Theories of Everything, 17(18), p.154-162, 2012)

VP-Deletion, Obligatory `too,’ and Focus Semantics