Current projects
- The Semantics of Gradable Modal Expressions, NSF project BCS-1053038, PIs: Graham Katz, Paul Portner, Elena Herburger.
- Weak necessity modals and modal discourse.
Publications
2011. Projective signals of weak necessity modals.
- Proceedings of ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Projective Meaning
- abstract
2010. (under review) Decoupling tense and aspect in Chinese. Ms., University of Massachusetts Amherst. [with Masashi Hashimoto]
2009. Groups in the semantics of reciprocal verbs.
- Proceedings of NELS 38
Presentations, posters, handouts
2011. Projective signals of weak necessity modals.
- Paper presented at the ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Projective Meaning
2010. Needing to have but not needing: the limited modal potential of intensional transitive verbs.
- Poster presented at CUNY 23
2009. Decoupling tense and aspect in Chinese. [with Masashi Hashimoto and Chris Davis]
- Paper presented at CHRONOS 9
2009. Between modals and verbs: the dual role of 'must' and 'need'.
- Poster presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the LSA
2007. Groups in the semantics of reciprocal verbs.
- Paper presented at NELS 38 and at the conference Reciprocals Cross-Linguistically
2003. Using LSA to detect irony.
- Paper presented at CL2003 workshop