Pragmatics Research and Scholarship Resources

• Resources on Presupposition and Accommodation
• Annotated Bibliography on presupposition accommodation written by Patricia Amaral (pdf) and in ( html ) format.
• David Beaver's searchable bibliography on Presupposition (html)
• Craige Roberts - Only, Presupposition and Implicature (pdf)
• Hannah Rohde's Rhetorical Questions as Redundant Interrogatives (pdf)
• Florian Schwarz - Processing Presupposed Content (pdf)
• Matthew Stone's syllabus on semantics/pragmatics from an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in AI (html) and relevant papers.
• Mandy Simons paper Presupposition without Common Ground (pdf)

• Papers and commentaries contributed for the Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation:

  • Barbara Abbott - Unaccommodating Presuppositions: A neoGricean's view (pdf)
    • comments by Gregory Ward (doc)
  • Lyn Frazier - The Big Fish in a Small Pond: Accommodation and the processing of novel definites (pdf)
    • comments by Anne Bezuidenhout (pdf)
  • Richmond H. Thomason , Matthew Stone and David DeVault -A Computational Architecture for Presupposition and Other Pragmatic Phenomena (pdf)
    • comments by Staffan Larsson (pdf)
    • comments by Mats Rooth & Dorit Abusch (pdf)
  • Joshua Dever - Living the Life Aquatic: Does Presupposition Accommodation Mandate Dynamic Semantics? (pdf)
    • comments by Kees van Deemter (ppt)
    • comments by Anthony Gillies (pdf)
  • Kai von Fintel, What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again? (pdf)
    • comments by David Beaver (pdf)
    • comments by Zoltan Szabo (pdf)
    • reply by Kai von Fintel: (doc)
  General Commentators:
  • Laurence R. Horn -(doc)

   

• Posters presented in the Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation:

• Napoleon Katsos's poster (pdf)
• Laura Kertz's poster (pdf)
• Hannah Rohde's poster (pdf)
• Florian Schwartz's poster (ppt) and handout (pdf)
• Natalia Serdobolskaya and Svetlana Toldova's poster (ppt)

pictures from the Workshop