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

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:

Symmetric and Interacting Alternatives for Implicature and Accommodation (Extended Handout of Manuscript in Progress, 2009)
Assertability Constraints and Absurd Assertions (Manuscript, 2007)
Presupposition and Selectional Restrictions (A squib on McCawley's idea that selectional restrictions should be treated as presuppositions, 2007)

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