Articles and current drafts by subject

Dynamic Semantics/Presupposition

On the Dynamics of Conversation
(manuscript, with
Seth Yalcin, 2012)

Explaining Presupposition Projection with Dynamic Semantics
(in
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011)

Transparency Theory and its Dynamic Alternatives: Commentary on “Be Articulate” (penultimate draft)
(in
Theoretical Linguistics, 2008)

Presupposition Projection and Logical Equivalence (penultimate draft)
(in
Philosophical Perspectives, 2008)

Connectives/Conditionals

Conditionals and Propositions in Semantics
(forthcoming in
Journal of Philosophical Logic) (email me for draft)

Capturing the Relationship Between Conditionals and Conditional Probability with a Trivalent Semantics 
(forthcoming in a special issue of
Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, edited by Pablo Cobreros, Paul Égré, Dave Ripley, and Robert van Rooij)

A Note on Conditionals and Restrictors (2012)
(paper for a conference in honor of Dorothy Edgington, being revised for an OUP volume)


Connectives without Truth Tables (penultimate draft)
(with
Nathan Klinedinst, in Natural Language Semantics, 2012)

Do Indicative Conditionals Express Propositions? (penultimate draft)
(in
Noûs, 2011)

Questions

Worrying about Trivial Questions
(in
UCL Working Papers in Linguistics)

Exhaustivity in Questions with Non-Factives
(with
Nathan Klinedinst, in Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011)

Polarity Items

Modularity and Intuitions in Formal Semantics: The Case of Polarity Items (penultimate draft)
(with
Emmanuel Chemla and Vincent Homer, in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2012)

Non-Monotonic NPI-Licensing, Definite Descriptions, and Grammaticalized Implicatures
(in
Proceedings of SALT, 2006)

Descriptions/Presupposition

The Elusive Scope of Descriptions (penultimate draft)
(in
Philosophy Compass, 2007)

Presuppositions and Scope (penultimate draft)
(in
The Journal of Philosophy, 2007)


Semantics/Pragmatics/Expressivism

Expressing Credences (penultimate draft)
(in
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2012)

Indexical Predicates (penultimate draft)
(with
Gabriel Segal, in Mind & Language, 2009)

Game theory and pragmatics

Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures
(forthcoming in Philosophical Perspectives)



Older Versions/Notes/Unpublished Manuscripts

Making Dynamic Semantics Explanatory: Presupposition Projection (2009, mostly superseded by “Explaining Presupposition with Dynamic Semantics”)

Grice, Utterance Choice, and Rationality (2008, superseded by “Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures”)

Negative Polarity and Definite Descriptions (2006, old manuscript)