Forthcoming in Linguistics and Philosophy
Combining Lasersohn’s pragmatic halos with optimality-based reasoning yields a viable theory of the loose uses of absolute adjectives.
Published in Synthese, 2023
A compositional semantics for the loose uses of gradable adjectives (e.g. tall) and measure phrases (e.g. 180 cm).
Published in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021
Absolute adjectives (e.g. clean, flat) have loose semantic contents and they have apparent wide-scope and narrow-scope readings when embedded under a belief context.
Published in Philosophical Studies, 2020
Questions under discussion (QUDs) and minimal propositions (if such propositions exist) do not determine what is said.