Research

Christopher Potts. 2008. Pragmatic enrichment via expressive content. Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, May 23.

Christopher Potts. 2008. Interpretive Economy, Schelling Points, and evolutionary stability. Stanford Semantics Group, May 23. [associated manuscript]

Christopher Davis. 2008. Contexts, decisions, and the Japanese particle yo. To appear in the Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language 2008.

Maria Biezma. 2008. An expressives analysis of exclamatives in Spanish. Submitted to the Proceedings of Going Romance 21.

Maria Biezma. 2007. On the consequences of being small: Imperatives in Spanish. To appear in the Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 38. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

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

Christopher Potts. 2008. The coin of the expressive realm. Plenary address, Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium, The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, May 9-11.

Christopher Potts. 2008. The pragmatics of expressive content. Invited lecture, Cornell Workshop on Philosophy of Language, April 26. [abstract]

Christopher Potts, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Seth Cable, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric McCready, Tom Roeper, and Martin Walkow. 2008. Expressives and identity conditions. Short squib.

Christopher Potts. The compositional independence of expressives. Invited lecture, Fifth Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference, June 5-8

Christopher Potts. 2007. The expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2):165-197.

Christopher Potts. 2007. The centrality of expressive indices: Reply to the commentaries. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2):255-268.

Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Peggy Speas. 2007. Evidential marking, interrogatives, and the maxim of quality. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17, UConn, May 11-13.

Christopher Potts. 2007. Expressive content and semantic theory. Invited lecture, University of Chicago Graduate Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy, April 6.

Christopher Potts. 2007. Pragmatic dimensions: Quality and expressivity. Invited lectures, Penn Linguistics, March 29, and University of Chicago, April 5.

Christopher Potts. 2007. An introduction to expressive content. Invited lecture, Swarthmore Linguistics, March 30.