Publications (and some manuscripts)


Papers are listed here in reverse chronological order. To browse by topic, go to the Projects page.
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On Heim's "On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions"


Mandy Simons

Louise McNally, Zoltán Szabó, A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics: Volume 100 of Studies in LInguistics and Philosophy, Springer, 2022, pp. 155-170



Natural Conventions and Indirect Speech Acts


Mandy Simons, Kevin Zollman

Philosophers' Imprint, vol. 19(9), 2019, pp. 1-26



Convention, Intention and the Conversational Record


Mandy Simons

Gerhard Preyer, chapter 14, Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics, 2018



A closer look at strengthened readings of scalars


Mandy Simons, Tessa C. Warren

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018



Questions Under Discussion: Where Information Structure Meets Projective Content


David I. Beaver, Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser

2017



The Best Question: Explaining the Projection Behavior of Factives


Mandy Simons, David I. Beaver, Craige Roberts, Judith Tonhauser

2017



A Unified Annotation Scheme for the Semantic/Pragmatic Components of Definiteness


Archna Bhatia, Mandy Simons, Lori S. Levin, Yulia Tsvetkov, Chris Dyer, J. Bender

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014



Local pragmatics and structured contents


Mandy Simons

Philosophical Studies, 2014



Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content


Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons

Language, 2013



Presupposing


Mandy Simons

Marina Sbisà, Ken Turner, Pragmatics of Speech Actions, (Handbooks of Pragmatics Vol. 2), De Gruyter Mouton, 2013



Conversational Implicature


Mandy Simons

Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner, International Handbook of Semantics Vol. 3, De Gruyter Mouton, 2011



A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicatures


Mandy Simons

Klaus Petrus, Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice, 2010



What projects and why


Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser, David I. Beaver, Craige Roberts

2010



Foundational Issues in Presupposition


Mandy Simons

Philosophy Compass, vol. 1(4), 2006, pp. 357-372



Dividing things up: The semantics of "or" and the modal/"or" interaction


Mandy Simons

Natural Language Semantics, vol. 13, 2005, pp. 271-316



Presupposition and Relevance


Mandy Simons

Zoltán Szabó, Presupposition and Relevance, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 329-355



Presupposition and Accommodation: Understanding the Stalnakerian Picture


Mandy Simons

Philosophical Studies, vol. 112, 2003, pp. 251-278



Interpreting Negatives in Discourse


Michael Kohlhase, Mandy Simons

CMU-PHIL-127, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002



Disjunction And Alternativeness


Mandy Simons

Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 24, 2001, pp. 597-619



Pronouns and Definite Descriptions


Mandy Simons

Journal of Philosophy, vol. 93(8), 1996, pp. 408-420



Disjunction and Anaphora


Mandy Simons

Proceedings of SALT 6, 1996, pp. 245-260



Unpublished / In progress


Creating Coherence with Concepts


Mandy Simons, David Danks

2021




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