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Talks
Conference presentations
2007. Evidential marking, interrogatives, and the maxim of quality. [Chris Davis, Christopher Potts, and Peggy Speas]. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17, UConn, May 11-13. [slides]
2006. Constraint weighting as linear programming. [Joe Pater, Christopher Potts, Tim Beechey, and Rajesh Bhatt]. Paper and software presented at MathPhon I, Université d'Orléans, France, August 21--September 3.
2005. The narrowing acquisition path: From expressive small clauses to declaratives. [Christopher Potts and Tom Roeper]. Paper presented at the Workshop on the (In)-Determinacy of Meaning, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, February 25, 2005.
2004. The performative nature of Japanese honorifics. [Christopher Potts and Shigeto Kawahara]. Paper presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 14, Northwestern University, May 16. [handout]
2003. Hidden imperatives. [James Isaacs and Christopher Potts]. Poster presented at the North East Linguistics Society 34. Stony Brook University, November 7-9. [slides]
2003. Model theory and output-output correspondence. [Christopher Potts and Geoffrey K. Pullum]. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, January 5-9. [abstract and bibtex]
2002. Expressive content as conventional implicature. North East Linguistic Society 33. MIT, November 8-10. [abstract; handout]
2001. No vacuous quantification constraints in syntax. North East Linguistics Society 32 . New York University and the City University of New York, October 19-21. [handout]
2001. The lexical semantics of parenthetical-As and appositive-Which. The Chicago Linguistics Society 37 . University of Chicago, April 18-21.
2001. A bit of the syntax and much of the semantics of As-parentheticals. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 20. University of Southern California, February 23-25.
2000. Parenthetical-As and propositionality. Linguistics at Santa Cruz. UC Santa Cruz, December.
Invited talks
2008. Pragmatic enrichment via expressive content. Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, May 23. [slides]
2008. Interpretive Economy, Schelling Points, and evolutionary stability. Stanford Semantics Group, May 23. [slides; associated manuscript]
2008. The coin of the expressive realm. Plenary address, Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium, The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, May 9-11.
2008. The pragmatics of expressive content. Invited lecture, Cornell Workshop on Philosophy of Language, April 26. [abstract]
2008. The dynamics of apposition. Chris Barker's NYU Linguistics seminar on dynamics, February 25. [abstract and implementation]
2007. The generality of pragmatic inference: Message enrichment in multi-agent interactions. U.S. Navy Research Laboratory, December 10.
2007. Interrogatives: Interpretation and resolution. Alumnus plenary speaker, SUNY-CUNY-NYU 9th Annual Mini-Conference, December 1.
2007. Questions. [Joint work with Maribel Romero and Jesse Aron Harris]. AAAI 2007 Workshop on Cognitive Approaches to NLP, Arlington, VA, November 9-11.
2007. The compositional independence of expressives. Fifth Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference, June 5-8.
2007. Expressive content and semantic theory. University of Chicago Graduate Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy, April 6. [menu of topics]
2007. An introduction to expressive content. Swarthmore Linguistics, March 30. [slides]
2007. Pragmatic dimensions: Quality and expressivity. Penn Linguistics, March 29, and University of Chicago, April 5.
2006/7. Harmonic Grammar as Linear Programming. UMass Amherst Linguistics, September 22, 2006, SPLUNCH, Penn Linguistics, March 29, and Chicago Language Modeling Lab, April 5. [associated manuscript]
2006. Pragmatic dimensions. Harvard University, September 29.
2006. Pragmatic intrusion of forward-looking utterance modifiers. Adverbes de Phrase Workshop, Université Paris 7, September 15
2006. Performatives in the expressive dimension. Groupe Dialogue, GDR Sémantique et Modélisation, Paris, September 14.
2006. A system of pragmatic pressures. Language for Intelligent Machines (LIMES) Workshop, West Point, July 19-21.
2006. Conversational implicatures via general pragmatic pressures. Logic Engineering and Natural Language Semantics 2006, Tokyo, Japan, June 5. [paper]
2005/6. Integrated pragmatic values. ZAS, Berlin (September 23), Göttingen (September 21), Yale University (November 7), UCLA (December 1). OSU (February 24), and Brown (March 6). [handout]
2005/6. The expressive dimension. ZAS, Berlin (September 20), OSU (February 23), and Tohoku University, Sendai (June 2).
2005. Lexicalized intonational meaning. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, March 5, 2005 and Workshop on the (In)-Determinacy of Meaning, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, February 23, 2005. [associated UMOP 30 paper]
2004. The dimensions of quotation. Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Reports, and Logophors, Harvard University, November 20, 2004.
2004. Comments on Paul Portner's 'Instructions for Interpretation as Separate Performatives'. [Christopher Potts, Florian Schwarz, and Shigeto Kawahara]. Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Reports, and Logophors, Harvard University, November 20, 2004. [handout]
2004. Lexicalized intonational meaning. Paper presented at the University of Maryland, October 1. [abstract; handout]
2004. Honorifics: Interpreted and interpretable. [Ash Asudeh and Christopher Potts]. Phi Workshop, McGill University, August 27-29. [a working draft of the paper; handout]
2003. The performative nature of expressive content. The Ling Lunch, UConn Linguistics, November 17, and The University of Rochester, November 18.
2003. Keeping world and will apart: A discourse-based semantics for imperatives. NYU Syntax/Semantics Lecture Series, October 17. [handout]
2003. A layered semantics for utterance modifiers. Paper presented at the Workshop on Direct Compositionality, Brown University, June 19-21. [extended abstract; paper]
2003. Conventional implicatures, a distinguished class of meanings. Paper presented at UMass, Amherst, February 10, and at USC, February 13.
2002. A new factual basis for conventional implicatures. Paper presented at the Ling Lunch, UConn Linguistics, October 29.
2002. Model theory and output-output correspondence. [Christopher Potts and Geoffrey K. Pullum]. Paper presented at the Phonology Workshop, Stanford University, October 17.
2002. Comparative economy conditions in natural language syntax. Paper presented at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 1, Workshop on Model-Theoretic Syntax, Stanford University, June 28. [abstract]
2002. A description language for economy conditions. Paper presented at the Syntax Workshop, Stanford University, January 29. [abstract]