Research by members of OSU's Pragmatics Initiative

Journal Articles and Refereed Book Chapters

• Craige Roberts. "Uniqueness in definite noun phrases." Linguistics and Philosophy 26:287-350, 2003.
• Craige Roberts. "Discourse context in dynamic interpretation." In Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward Eds. (2003) Handbook of Contemporary Pragmatic Theory, Blackwell.
• Craige Roberts. "Pronouns as definites." In Anne Bezuidenhout and Marga Reimer Eds. (2004) Descriptions and Beyond, Oxford University Press.
• Scott Schwenter and Salvador Pons Bordería (2004) "Polar meaning and "expletive" negation in approximative adverbs: Spanish por poco (no)." Journal of Historical Pragmatics.
• Scott Schwenter. "Fine-Tuning Jespersen's Cycle." (2004) Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, ed. by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Invited)
• Scott Schwenter "The pragmatics of negation in Brazilian Portuguese." (in press) Lingua.
• Scott Schwenter and Salvador Pons Bordería (in press) "Por poco (no): explicación sincrónica y diacrónica de sus componentes de significado." Lingüística Española Actual.

Refereed Conference Presentations:

• Donna K. Byron and Laura Stoia. "Intentional Perspective and Proximity Markers in Collaborative Discourse". Presented at the 41st annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 2005.
• Donna K. Byron. "Natural Noun Phrase Variation for Interactive Characters." In the Proceedings of the first Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment, Marina Del Rey, June 2005.
• Donna K. Byron, T. Mampilly, V. Sharma, and T. Xu. "Utilizing Visual Attention for Cross-Modal Coreference Interpretation." In the Proceedings of Context -2005, Paris, France, July 2005.
• Craige Roberts. "Comments on the paper by David Beaver." Conference on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, November, 2003.
• Craige Roberts. "Comments on the paper by Sigrid Beck." Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, November, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter. "Fine-tuning Jespersen's Cycle." Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA, January 9, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter. With Gláucia Silva. "The accessibility of anaphoric direct objects in Brazilian Portuguese." Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA, January 9, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter. "Prototype effects on anaphoric direct objects: evidence from Brazilian Portuguese." Paper presented at the 57th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 16, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter. "Variable null objects in Spanish dialects: parallels with differential object marking." Paper presented at the VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Mexico, November 19, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter and Richard Waltereit, "Presupposition accommodation and language change: from additivity to speech-act marking." Presented at FITIGRA: Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, February 10-12, 2005.
• Scott Schwenter and Rena Torres Cacoullos. "Towards an operational notion of subjectification." Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), February 18-20, 2005.
• Assela Reig Alamillo. "Propuesta para una clasificación de los verbos realizativos en español". Presented at the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. HLS: October 15-17, 2004
• Patrícia Matos Amaral. "Inferrables with Pronominal Subjects in European Portuguese: Implications for Theories of Discourse Anaphora" DAARC 2004: 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, S. Miguel, Açores, September 23-24, 2004. Subsequently published in Proceedings of DAARC 2004. Ed. By António Branco, Tony McEnery e Ruslan Mitkov. Edições Colibri. pp. 1-7.
• Patricia Matos Amaral. "Reexamining the Portuguese Perfect Puzzle" (with Chad Howe), 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, October 15-17, 2004.
• Patricia Matos Amaral. "Scope ambiguity and modality in semantic change: a case study from Portuguese", presented at the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. HLS: October 15-17, 2004
• Patricia Matos Amaral. "Information structure and semantic change: a case study from Portuguese" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, CA, January 6-9, 2005.
• Patricia Matos Amaral. "Inferrables with Pronominal Subjects in European Portuguese: Implications for Theories of Discourse Anaphora" (work in progress)
• Anouschka Bergman. "The prosodic realization of topic and focus in Veneto Italian and its implications for pragmatic theory". Submitted to Experimental Pragmatics: Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Conversation, University of Cambridge, April 14-16 2005.
• Chad Howe. "Pragmatic Conditions on Spanish Plural Anaphora: A Pragmatic (Experimental) Approach". 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, October 15-17, 2004.
• Chad Howe and Patrícia Matos Amaral. "Reexamining the Portuguese Perfect Puzzle", 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, October 15-17, 2004.
• Chad Howe. "On the purported inferiority of split antecedents". Southeastern Conference on Linguistics LXXI, 2004.
• Scott Schwenter and Patrícia Matos Amaral (2005) "Contrast and the (Non-) Occurrence of Subject Pronouns." Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington, 116-27. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.