Some recent work

Dissertation

Anchoring pragmatics in syntax and semantics. UMass Amherst, Linguistics (2011) (pdf)
[The document above still contains some typos and some of the content has been further refined during the process of writing the different papers for submission to different journals]

Journals

- 2023. Being pragmatic about biscuits. (with Arno Goebel) (draft), in Linguistics & Philosophy.
- 2020. Non-informative assertions: The case of non-optional wh-in-situ. Semantics & Pragmatics 13. (https://doi.org/fnkw).
- 2019. Prenuclear L*+H activates alternatives for the accented word (Bettina Braun and María Biezma) Frontiers in psychology.
- 2017. Or what? (with Kyle Rawlins) Semantics & Pragmatics 10. (https://semprag.org/article/view/sp.10.16)
- 2015. Alternative questions. (with Kyle Rawlins) Language and Linguistics Compass 9: 11, 450-468.
- 2014. Multiple focus strategies in pro-drop languages: evidence from ellipsis. Syntax 17(2), 91–131. (draft)
- 2012. Responding to alternative and polar questions (with Kyle Rawlins) Linguistics & Philosophy 35, 361–406 (draft)
- (under revision) Consequents gone missing: The case of impoverished conditionals in Spanish

Refereed collections of papers

2018. Givenness and the difference between wh-fronted and wh-in-situ questions in Spanish. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13, pages 21–39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (draft)

Proceedings and other refereed conferences

2021 Prosody is adding what?: Echo questions are not a thing (with Bettina Braun and Angela James) Proceedings of SALT 31. (draft)
2019 Presupposing questions. Proceedings of SuB 23. (draft)
2018. Polar Questions vs. Kya Questions in Hindi/Urdu (with Miriam Butt and Farhat Jabeen), GLOW 41.
2018. A case of if-clauses on their own. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 48.
2017. Rhetorical questions: Severing questioning from asking (with Kyle Rawlins) Proceedings of SALT 27. (draft)
2017. Interpretation of Urdu/Hindi polar kya. (with Miriam Butt and Farhat Jabeen) XPrag Workshop Not-at-issue meaning and information structure. Oslo, 2017.
2016. The pragmatic ingredients to get perfect biscuits (with Arno Goebel) Proceedings of SuB 21 (draft)
2016. Or what?: Challenging the speaker. (with Kyle Rawlins) Proceedings of NELS 46. (draft)
2016. Discourse rationality and the counterfactuality implicature in backtracking conditionals. (with Ana Arregui) Proceedings of SuB 20. (Draft).
2014. The grammar of discourse: The case of then. Proceedings of SALT 24. (draft)
2014. Bundling questions and granularity in discourse (with Kyle Rawlins). Talk at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 7, ZAS Berlin, June 26–28.
2014. Counterfactuality in non-standard subjunctive conditionals (with Dan Siddiqi and Andrew Carnie). Proceedings of NELS 43. 25–36 (draft)
2013. Only one at least: Refining the role of discourse in building alternatives. In Kobey Shwayder (ed.), PWPL 19.1: Proceedings of Penn Linguistics Colloquium 36, pg. 12–19. (draft)
2012. Or what? (with Kyle Rawlins). Talk given in DGFS (Questions In Discourse workshop), Frankfurt, March 2012.
2012 Conditional inversion and GIVENNESS. Proceedings of SALT 21 (draft)
2011. Optatives: deriving desirability from scalar alternatives. Proceedings of SuB 15 (draft)
2010. Inverted antecedents in hidden conditionals. Proceedings of NELS 40 (draft)
2009. Using alternative questions to corner the addressee. CLA 2009
2009. Alternative vs Polar Questions: the cornering effect. Proceedings of SALT 19 (draft)
2009. Focus in Spanish: a processing perspective. Linguistic Symposium on Romance languages (LSRL) 39
2009. Processing evidence for multiple focus-assignment strategies. CUNY 22
2008. A covert modal in Spanish, Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 38
2008. On the consequences of being small: Imperatives in Spanish, Proceedings of NELS 38 (draft)
2008. On the Interpretation of Pronouns in Spanish Imperatives, Proceedings of NELS 38 (draft)
2007. An Expressives Analysis of Exclamatives in Spanish, Going Romance 21 (paper)