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Our paper Perfect variations in dialogue: a parallel corpus approach has been published online in the SALT 32 proceedings.

A joint paper on parallel corpus methodology, co-authored with colleagues from the Time in Translation team, has been published online in the journal Languages: doi link.

Our paper “Not…Until across European Languages: A Parallel Corpus Study”, co-authored with Henriëtte de Swart and Bernhard Wälchli, has been published online in the journal Languages: doi link.

Our paper Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory, co-authored with Martijn van der Klis, has been published online in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: doi link.

My paper “When if or when specify modals” has been published online in the WCCFL 38 proceedings. Download the paper directly.

My paper Temporal adverbial superlatives in Dutch has been published online in Linguistics in the Netherlands. I presented this work earlier at the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day.

My paper An analysis of all-clefts published in Glossa is now available online: 10.5334/gjgl.1092.

I gave a talk at the online conference Probability and Meaning (PaM) 2020. The title of my presentation was “Conditional answers and the role of probabilistic epistemic representations”. Download the accompanying paper here.

My paper “Emphatic reflexives as part-structure modifiers”, published in Linguistics in the Netherlands 36, 176–191 is available online now: link.

I presented a poster at SemDial 2019 in London, joint work with Martijn van der Klis, Bert Le Bruyn and Henriëtte de Swart. The title was “Tense use in dialogue”. Download the poster, the accompanying handout, and the proceedings abstract.

[with J. Barchas-Lichtenstein, C. Martin, and P. Munro]

In E. Keenan and D. Paperno (eds.) Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume 2, pp. 751 — 801. Springer. Download

This paper analyzes the behavior of still in subjunctive conditionals. It presents a novel three-way empirical distinction that shows that in certain counterfactual contexts, still behaves like an additive particle. I provide a unified analysis for aspectual still, still in semifactuals, and a third use newly introduced here. I propose a revision of the standard event-based semantics of aspectual still (Ippolito 2007) in order to make it embeddable under modal operators.

My dissertation "Counterfactuality in discourse" (UCLA, June 2016) investigates the effect of discourse on counterfactual inferences in conditionals. I provide novel data that illustrate the focus-sensitivity of counterfactual inferences: in combination with certain focus particles, and when pronounced with certain intonation contours, counterfactual conditionals do not trigger some counterfactual inferences that would otherwise arise. In the analysis I propose, the link between the topic-focus structure of conditionals and the generation of counterfactual inferences lies in the pragmatic phenomenon of conditional perfection (the strengthening of conditionals into biconditionals).

Expressing identity in Imbabura Quichua in Proceedings of SULA 8

Abstract: The way to express token identity (‘the same X’) in Imbabura Quichua is also used to express intensifiers (‘X himself’) and repeated action (‘X again’). I argue that the semantic core of these meanings is the identity function. The paper discusses the implications for the typology of intensifier expressions.

Only and focus in Imbabura Quichua in Proceedings of BLS 40

Abstract: I show that Imbabura Quichua has an asymmetric pattern of focus marking: focus in question-answer congruency is marked with a suffix -mi. The argument of the exclusive particle -lla 'only', on the other hand, is not morphologically or phonetically marked. I propose a syntactic mechanism of association-by-focus instead.

Clitics and voicing in Dutch in Proceedings of BLS 39

Abstract: I propose a two-layer OT analysis for the interaction of voicing processes and clitic attachment in Dutch. I argue that this analysis is empirically and conceptually superior to two earlier analyses: the rule-based Lexical Phonology analysis from Booij (1995), and the single-level OT analysis from Grijzenhout and Krämer (2000).