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31Expressives and identity conditionsLinguistic Inquiry 40 (2): 356-366. 2009.We present diverse evidence for the claim of Pullum and Rawlins (2007) that expressives behave differently from descriptives in constructions that enforce a particular kind of semantic identity between elements. Our data are drawn from a wide variety of languages and construction types, and they point uniformly to a basic linguistic distinction between descriptive content and expressive content (Kaplan 1999; Potts 2007).
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26We need a team of gene-mappers, not principle-proversBehavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4): 630-631. 1991.
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13Multiple Grammars and the Logic of Learnability in Second Language AcquisitionFrontiers in Psychology 7. 2016.
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12Excluded entailments and the de se/de re partitionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 65 (7): 858-886. 2022.ABSTRACT We show that some PRO-sentences appear to receive de re interpretations when they occur in suitable discourse contexts or linguistic environments. This finding is surprising given the received view that such sentences are unambiguously de se [Morgan. 1970. “On the Criterion of Identity for Noun Phrase Deletion.” Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL, 380–389; Chierchia. 1990. “Anaphora and Attitudes de se.” In Semantics and Contextual Exp…Read more
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6Propositions and implicit arguments carry a default general point of viewIn Cécile Meier & Janneke van Wijnbergen-Huitink (eds.), Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism, De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 201-226. 2016.
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5Recursion: Complexity in Cognition (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2014.This volume focuses on recursion and reveals a host of new theoretical arguments, philosophical perspectives, formal representations, and empirical evidence from parsing, acquisition, and computer models, highlighting its central role in modern science. Noam Chomsky, whose work introduced recursion to linguistics and cognitive science, and other leading researchers in the fields of philosophy, semantics, computer science, and psycholinguistics in showing the profound reach of this concept into m…Read more
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We analyze expressive small clauses like you fool (and their counterparts in other languages) as contributors of expressive content. Independently known restrictions on expressive content in turn allow us to derive their limited distribution. The theory has ramifications for child language. It correctly predicts which root-level small clauses will survive into adult grammar and which will be blocked by the acquisition of higher functional projections. It also opens the way to an analysis of chil…Read more
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The acquisition path of near-reflexivityIn Kristen Surett & Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), Semantics in language acquisition, John Benjamins. 2018.