Post-doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago's department of Linguistics.
crosslinguistic formal and lexical semantics, pragmatics, morphosyntax, philosophy of language, natural language ontology.
Existential
Propositions
completed Sept. 2007, Stanford University
department of
linguistics.
2010
* Context dependence and implicit arguments in existentials.
Linguistics and Philosophy. (email me for an offprint)
* Possessed properties in Ulwa (with Andrew Koontz-Garboden)
Natural Language Semantics 18:2 (email me for an offprint)
2009
* Quantified possessives and direct compositionality
To appear in the proceedings of SALT 19 PDF
* No i-sums for Nissim (and Shalom)
A paper about donkey anaphora that
appeared in a Festschrift
for Nissim Francez
A preprint can be found [ here
]
* Existentials, predication, modification.
Linguistics and Philosophy 32:1. [ preprint ]
2007
* Quantification in the coda of existentials
In proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium [ pdf ]
2006
* Semantic structure and argument realization in (mostly Hebrew) existentials
in proceedings of IATL22 [ pdf ]
* Several problems for predicate decomposition (with John Beavers)
to appear in proceedings of BLS 32 [ pdf ]
* Possessors, goals and the classification of ditransitive predicates: Evidence from Hebrew
in Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6 [ pdf ]
2005
* Bad Subject: (Non-)canonicality
and NP distribution in existentials
(with David Beaver and Dmitry
Levinson)
In proceedings of SALT 15 [ pdf ]
