Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre‐eminent
place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground,
structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of …

Abstract and many subsequent works have argued that the semantic content of appositive
(non-restrictive) relative clauses, eg, the underlined material in John, who nearly killed a …

This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences
across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the …

This thesis is concerned with sluicing, the ellipsis of TP in a Wh-question leaving a Wh-
phrase “remnant” overt. Sluicing is subject to an identity condition that must hold between …

Abstract Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie,(who is) a classical violinist, performed a
piece by Mozart) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible …

Since Merchant 2001, it has been widely agreed that the licensing condition on sluicing is at
least partially semantic in nature. This article argues that the semantics this condition …

We present a detailed manual for a pragmatic, ie meaning-based, method for the information-
structural analysis of naturally attested data, which is built on the idea that for any assertion …

It is widely held that all lies are assertions: the traditional definition of lying entails that, in
order to lie, speakers have to assert something they believe to be false. It is also widely held …