Rajvinder Singh
Update: Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, as of 1 July 2009 (Website to be updated soon)
Postdoc, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy
My CV
Modularity Reading Group
IAP Class: On the Rational Exchange of Information
Papers:
- Symmetric and Interacting Alternatives for Implicature and Accommodation (To Appear in N. Klinedinst and D. Rothschild (eds.), Proceedings of ESSLLI 2009 Workshop: New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition)
- Maximize Presupposition and Informationally Encapsulated Implicatures (To Appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart)
- Maximize Presupposition and Local Contexts (Submitted, Natural Language Semantics)
- VP-Deletion, Obligatory `too,' and Focus Semantics (Submitted, Linguistic Inquiry)
- A Note on the Absence of XOR in Natural Language (with Roni Katzir), To Appear in P. Egre and G. Magri (eds.), Proceedings of MIT-France Workshop on Scalar Implicature and Presupposition
- On the Interpretation of Disjunction: Asymmetric, Incremental, and Eager for Inconsistency (Linguistics and Philosophy, 31, p. 245-260, 2008)
- Formal Alternatives as a Solution to the Proviso Problem (In Proceedings of SALT 17, p. 264-281, 2007)
Manuscripts/Handouts:
Mailing Address:
MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D808
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Office Number: 32-D774
email: singhr@mit.edu
tel:
617-253-4429