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    On Dependent Pronouns and Dynamic Semantics
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 36 (2): 123-154. 2007.
    Within natural language semantics, pronouns are often thought to correspond to variables whose values are contributed by contextual assignment functions. This paper concerns the application of this idea to cases where the antecedent of a pronoun is a plural quantifiers. The paper discusses the modelling of accessibility patterns of quantifier antecedents in a dynamic theory of interpretation. The goal is to reach a semantics of quantificational dependency which yields a fully semantic notion of …Read more
  •  44
    The comparative and degree pluralities
    with Jakub Dotlačil
    Natural Language Semantics 24 (1): 45-78. 2016.
    Quantifiers in phrasal and clausal comparatives often seem to take distributive scope in the matrix clause: for instance, the sentence John is taller than every girl is is true iff for every girl it holds that John is taller than that girl. Broadly speaking, two approaches exist that derive this reading without postulating the wide scope of the quantifier: the negation analysis and the interval analysis of than-clauses. We propose a modification of the interval analysis in which than-clauses are…Read more
  •  31
    Upper-bounded no more: the exhaustive interpretation of non-strict comparison (review)
    Natural Language Semantics 16 (4): 271-295. 2008.
    The paper concerns the expression of non-strict comparison, focusing in particular on constructions of the form [no(t) . . .-er than] in modified numerals. The main empirical finding is the observation that negated comparatives contrast with regular comparatives in that the former but not the latter can give rise to (scalar) implicatures. It is shown that such a contrast falls out of theories of exhaustive interpretation that claim alternatives to form dense scales. An important result is that t…Read more
  • Vagueness in Communication (edited book)
    with Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland, and Hans-Christian Schmitz
    Springer. forthcoming.