Representative Publications

Most of the following publications are available are downloadable. The .pdf suffix indicates portable document format (PDF) files. Please emal me if you cannot download papers, or you would rather obtain paper copies. Your comments are always welcome.

• (joint withYael Sharvit), 2012, " Chapter 22: Embedded Tenses," In R. Binnick (ed.), Handbook of Tense and Aspect, pp. 638-668, Oxford University Press.
• 2011, "57. Tense," in Claudia Maienborn, Kalus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1463-1484.
• 2007, "Tense and Aspect in Truth-conditional Semantics," Lingua 117 (2), pp. 392-418.
• 2006b, "Attitudes without Monsters: A Japanese Perspective," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory 16, pp. 156-171CLC Publications, Cornell University. [salt16.pdf]
• 2006a, " Tense, Adverbials and Quantification" in Zanuttini, Raffaella, Hector Campos, Elena Herburger and Paul Portner (eds.) Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture. Georgetown University Press.
• 2004, "Adjectival Relatives," Linguistics and Philosophy 27 (5), pp. 557-608, October 2004. [abstract][The ms. available here (65 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and the published version differs slightly from the version available here.] [RC.pdf]
• 2003b, "A Scope Theory of Tense and Adnominal Modifiers," in S. Chiba et al. (eds.), Empirical and Theoretical Investigations Into Language, Kaitakusha, Tokyo, Japan. [The ms. available here (10 single-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not contain the changes incorporated in the published version.] [modifier.pdf]
• 2003a. "Adverbs of Quantification and Sequence of Tense Phenomena," in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.), Semantics: Critical Concepts, Volume 4, pp. 319-337, Routledge, London.
• 2000, "Counterfactuals, Temporal Adverbs, and Association with Focus," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory X (SALT10), CLC Publications, Cornell University, pp. 115-131. [salt10.pdf]
• 1999b, "Double-Access Sentences Generalized," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory IX (SALT9), CLC Publications, Cornell University, pp. 224-236. [salt9.pdf]
• 1999a, "The Semantics of Tense and Aspect in Japanese," in Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.) The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell, pp. 326-348. [The ms. available here (40 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not reflect the final changes incorporated into the published version.] [handbook.pdf]
• 1998d, "Tense, Aspect, and Argument Structure," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory VIII (SALT8), CLC Publications, Cornell University, pp. 169-184. [salt8.pdf]
• 1998c, "Adverbial Quantifiers, Maximal Situations, and Weak E-type Pronouns," in Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, (WECOL 96) Volume 9, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, pp. 200-213. [max.pdf]
• 1998b, "Verbal Morphology, Case Marking, and Telicity", (Review of Aspect and Predication: The Semantics of Argument Structure by Gillian C. Ramchand), Glot International, Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. 22-23. [The ms. available here (12 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not reflect the final changes incorporated into the published version.] [Ramchandreview.pdf]
• 1998a, "The Ambiguity of the -te iru Form in Japanese," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 7, pp. 87-120. [The ms. available here (59 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not reflect the final changes incorporated into the published version.] [teiru.pdf]
• 1997, "The Proportion Problem and DRT," in Masaru Ukaji, et al. (eds.), English Linguistics: A Festschrift for Professor Akira Ota on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, pp. 781-791, The Taishukan Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan. [The ms. available here (23 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not contain the changes incorporated in the published version.] [prop.pdf]
• 1996, Tense, Attitudes, and Scope, Kluwer Academic Publishers. abstract + ordering Info [errata.pdf]
• 1995c, " Non-factual Before and Adverbs of Quantification," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory V (SALT5), CLC Publications, Cornell University, pp. 273-291. [salt5.pdf]
• 1995b, "The Semantics of Tense in Embedded Clauses" Linguistic Inquiry 26, pp. 663-679. [The ms. available here (34 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not contain the changes incorporated in the published version.] abstract [tense.pdf]
• 1995a, "Double-Access sentences and Reference to States" Natural Language Semantics 3, pp. 177-210. [The ms. available here (53 double-spaced pages) is a pre-publication version and does not contain the changes incorporated in the published version.] [double-access.pdf]
• 1994b, "Adverbs of Quantification and Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena," Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory IV (SALT4), CLC Publications, Cornell University, pp. 251-267. [salt4.pdf]
• 1994a, " Events and States in Discourse" presented at the Annual LSA Meeting, Boston, January 8, 9 double-spaced pages. [LSA94.pdf]
• 1991, " Frequency Adverbs, Temporal Adverbial Clauses, and DRT" DYANA deliverable R2.3.B, ESPRIT Basic Research Action BR3175, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science. [deliv91.pdf]
• 1990, " The Semantics of the Progressive and the Perfect in English" DYANA deliverable R2.3.13, ESPRIT Basic Research Action BR3175, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science. [deliv90.pdf]
• 1989, Temporal Reference in English and Japanese, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club in 1992.
• 1987, "Obligatory Focus in Japanese and Type-Shifting Principles," Megan Crowhurst (ed.), WCCFL 6, 213-227, Stanford Linguistics Association. [wccfl6.pdf]

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