Basics
Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University
Currently working on:
Currently working on:
- Presupposition: what it is, how it works and where it comes from -- see this new manuscript co-authored with Craige Roberts
- Communication without Common Ground: Arguing for and developing an alternative to the common-ground based model of conversation -- see this manuscript, "Availability Without Common Ground"
- An ongoing side-project on nominal bridging, with David Danks and Hannah Rohde -- for example, this paper on using conceptual structure to explain bridging
I've also worked on:
- Implicature: in particular, how to extend the conservative Gricean picture to embedded implicature -- here's a SALT paper on this topic
- Disjunction: this was the topic of my dissertation, which I continued in some early papers -- see this paper for the pragmatics side, and this one for semantics
- Convention: see this joint paper with Kevin Zollman
Other roles:
- Director of the Program in Linguistics at CMU
- Associate Editor of Semantics and Pragmatics, a journal of the LSA
