In progress: (with Charles Clifton, Jr. and Lyn Frazier) Computing Scalar Implicatures.
2008: On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVI, to be published by CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY.
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: 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
2008. (with Chris Potts) Expressives in The Wild: Extracting Pragmatic Generalizations from Large Corpora. 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).
