2009. Two Types of Definites in Natural Language, PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Chair: Angelika Kratzer)
2009 [to appear]. The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora. [Noah Constant, Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz]. To appear in Sprache und Datenverarbeitung.
2009 [to appear]. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. [Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menendez-Benito and Florian Schwarz] In Proceedigs of NELS 39, Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2009 [to appear]. Strengthening ‘or’: Effects of Focus and Downward Entailing Contexts on Scalar Implicatures. [Florian Schwarz, Charles Clifton, Jr. and Lyn Frazier] In: Anderssen, Moulton, Schwarz & Ussery (eds.) UMOP 37: Semantic Processing. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2008. Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] Manuscript.
2007: Processing Presupposed Content. Journal of Semantics 24(4): 373-416; doi 10.1093/jos/ffm011 (full paper available for free from journal website if you click here)
2007: Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu. To appear in Aboh, Hartmann, Zimmermann (eds.) Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic, Berlin: Mouton. (draft)
2006. On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties. In: M. Gibson, J. Howell (eds), SALT XVI 259-276, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. (Click here for online version of Proceedings from SALT XVI)
2006: Presuppositions in Processing - a case study of German ‘auch’. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. Christian Ebert and Cornelia Endriss (eds.), 301-315.
2004: Linguistic factors, Manfred Krifka, Silka Martens, and Florian Schwarz: in Rainer Dietrich & Traci Michelle Childress (eds), Group Interaction in High Risk Environments, Ashgate Publishing, 75 - 86, 2004.
2004: The Better the Team, the Safer the World. Golden Rules of Group Interaction in High Risk Environments: Evidence based suggestions for improving performance. J. Bryan Sexton (ed.) Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation and Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue [Contributing author].
2003: Focus Marking in Kikuyu. In Questions and Focus. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 30, Regine Eckardt (ed.)
2003: Krifka, Manfred, S. Martens, F. Schwarz: Group Interaction in the Cockpit: Some Linguistic Factors. In Communication in High Risk Environment. (Linguistische Berichte: Sonderheft 12), Rainer Dietrich (ed.).
Talks and Posters
2009. Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] Talk presented at the Invited Session: Computational Linguistics: Implementation of Analyses against Data at the 2009 LSA meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 10th 2009.
2008. Maximize Presupposition and Two Types of Definite Competitors. [Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menendez-Benito and Florian Schwarz]. Poster presented at NELS 39 at Cornell, and Talk presented at a workshop at MIT in honor of Angelika Kratzer’s birthday, Dec. 6th, 2008.
2008. Expressives in The Wild: Extracting Pragmatic Generalizations from Large Corpora. [Chris Potts and Florian Schwarz] UCSC Alumni Conference, September 12th 2008.
2008. Two Types of Bridging with Two Types of Definites.
- Job talk at the University of Pennsylvania, February 14th 2008.
- Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at Stanford University, February 26th 2008.
2008. Bridging with Two Types of Definites in German - Relational Anaphora and Situational Uniqueness. Linguistics Colloquium (job talk) at UC Santa Cruz, January 9th 2008.
2008. Two Types of Definites - Bridging, Situational Uniqueness, and Anaphoricity. Talk presented at 2008 LSA meeting in Chicago. [See newer, extended version of handout above]
10/2006: A morphological distinction between bound and free definites. Poster presented at the OSU workshop on Presupposition Accommodation.
6/2006: A proposition for NEED (and a property for LOOK FOR). Talk presented at the Milan Meeting 2006, University of Milan.
3/2006: On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties. Talk presented at SALT 16, Tokyo University, Tokyo.
10/2005: Presuppositions in Processing - a case study of German ‘auch’. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 10, Humboldt University, Berlin.
12/2004: Kikuyu Focus Constructions - Syntactic and Semantic Issues. Talk presented at the workshop Topic and Focus: Information Structure and Grammar in African Languages, Dec. 3rd & 4th, University of Amsterdam, and at the Semantics Circle on Dec. 6th at the ZAS Berlin
11/2004: Comments on Paul Portner’s ‘Instructions for Interpretation as Separate Performatives’. Christopher Potts, Florian Schwarz, and Shigeto Kawahara:, Presented at the Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Reports, and Logophors, Harvard University.
7/2003: Fokusmarkierung im Kikuyu. Talk presented at the Syntax Circle at the ZAS (Berlin).
4/2003: Focus Marking in Kikuyu. Talk presented at the workshop Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory held at SOAS (London).
