Publications

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Refereed

In preparation. Dimensions of Meaning. Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.

2008. Expressives and identity conditions. [Christopher Potts, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Seth Cable, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric McCready, Tom Roeper, and Martin Walkow]. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry. [paper]

2008. Review article: Hagit Borer's Structuring Sense, Volumes I and II. Language 82(2):348-369. [paper; bibtex]

2007. The expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2):165-197 [paper; bibtex]

2007. The centrality of expressive indices: Reply to the commentaries. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2):255-268. [paper; bibtex]

2007. Into the conventional-implicature dimension. Philosophy Compass 4(2):665-679 [paper; bibtex]

2007. The dimensions of quotation. In Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson, eds., Direct Compositionality, 405-431. Oxford University Press. [paper; bibtex]

2007. Conventional implicatures, a distinguished class of meanings. In Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, 475-501. Oxford University Press. [paper; abstract; bibtex]

2006. How far can pragmatic mechanisms take us? Theoretical Linguistics 32(3):307-320. [paper; bibtex]

2006. The narrowing acquisition path: From expressive small clauses to declaratives. [Christopher Potts and Tom Roeper]. In Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles, Ellen Barton, eds., The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives, 183-201. John Benjamins. [paper; bibtex]

2006. Review of Siobhan Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist. Mind 115:743--747. [paper; bibtex]

2006. Conversational implicatures via general pragmatic pressures. In Takashi Washio, Akito Sakurai, Katsuto Nakajima, Hideaki Takeda, Satoshi Tojo, and Makoto Yokoo, eds., Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 2006, 205--218. Berlin: Springer. [paper; bibtex]

2005. The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. Oxford University Press. [chapter 2; bibtex] Cover of The Logic of Conventional Implicatures

2003. Model theory and the content of OT constraints. [Christopher Potts and Geoffrey K. Pullum]. Phonology 19(3):361-393. [abstract; bibtex]

2002. The syntax and semantics of As-parentheticals. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20(3):623-689. [abstract; bibtex]

2002. The lexical semantics of parenthetical-as and appositive-which. Syntax 5(1):55-88. [abstract; bibtex]

2001. (Only) some weak crossover effects repaired. Snippets 1:3 (January). [paper; bibtex]

Other publications and papers

In press. Formal pragmatics. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. [entry]

In press. Semantics--pragmatics interactions. In Patrick Colm Hogan, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press. [entry; bibtex]

2007. The pragmatic values of evidential sentences. [Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Margaret Speas]. To appear in Masayuki Gibson and Tova Friedman, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [paper; bibtex]

2005. Lexicalized intonational meaning. In Shigeto Kawahara, ed., University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 30 (UMOP 30). Amherst, MA: GLSA. [paper; bibtex]

2004. Japanese honorifics as emotive definite descriptions. [Christopher Potts and Shigeto Kawahara]. In Kazuha Watanabe and Robert B. Young, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14, 235-254. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [paper; bibtex]

2003. Expressive content as conventional implicature. In Makoto Kadowaki and Shigeto Kawahara, eds., Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 33, 303-322. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA. [paper; bibtex]

2002. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 21. [Line Mikkelsen and Christopher Potts, eds.]. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [bibtex]

2002. NELS 33 conference report. Glot International. [report]

2002. WCCFL 21 conference report. Glot International 5:5. [report]

2002. No vacuous quantification constraints in syntax. In Masako Hirotani, ed., Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 32, 451-470. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA. [paper; bibtex]

2002. Comparative economy conditions in natural language syntax. Paper presented at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, Workshop on Model-Theoretic Syntax, Stanford University (June 28, 2002). [paper; bibtex]

2001. Three kinds of transderivational constraint. In Séamas Mac Bhloscaidh, ed., Syntax at Santa Cruz, Volume 3, 21-40. Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz. [paper; bibtex]

2000. When even no's neg is splitsville. Jorge Hankamer's Web Fest [paper: pdf; html; bibtex]

Dissertation

2003. The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. PhD thesis, UC Santa Cruz. [abstract; bibtex; 1up PDF; 2up PDF]