The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

Chris Cummins is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked at Bielefeld University, having received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the pragmatic interpretation of quantity expressions, and how this bears upon reasoning and decision-making; he has also published on the topics of presupposition, speech acts and metaphor. He is the author of Constraints on Numerical Expressions (OUP 2015).

Napoleon Katsos is a Reader in Experimental Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge. He was among the first generation of PhD researchers to be trained in experimental pragmatics and took part in related networks, such as Euro-XPrag, XPrag-UK, and XPrag-De. He is interested in how we learn, process, and use the meaning of words and sentences, with emphasis on quantification and implicature. He draws relevant evidence from linguistic theory and experimental psychology, including sentence processing and typical or atypical language acquisition by monolingual or bilingual children.

1. Introduction, Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos
2. Language comprehension, inference, and alternatives, Dimitrios Skordos and David Barner
3. Constraint-based pragmatic processing, Judith Degen and Michael K. Tanenhaus
4. Scalar implicatures, Richard Breheny
5. Event decomposition, Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband
6. Presuppositions, projection, and accommodation, Florian Schwarz
7. Spatial terms, Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou
8. Counterfactuals, Heather Ferguson
9. Distributivity, Kristen Syrett
10. Genericity, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
11. Modified numerals, Rick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, and Yaron McNabb
12. Negation, Ye Tian and Richard Breheny
13. Plurality, Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli
14. Quantification, Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlačil
15. Quantifier spreading, Patricia J. Brooks and Olga Parshina
16. Adjective meaning and scales, Stephanie Solt
17. Ironic utterances, Nicola Spotorno and Ira Noveck
18. Metaphor, Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati
19. Metonymy, Petra B. Schumacher
20. Vagueness, Sam Alxatib and Uli Sauerland
21. Verbal uncertainty, Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-Francois Bonnefon
22. Word senses, Hugh Rabagliati and Mahesh Srinivasan
23. Antecedent-contained deletion, Kristen Syrett
24. Exhaustivity in it-clefts, Edgar Onea
25. Focus, Christina S. Kim
26. Negative Polarity Items, Ming Xiang
27. Pronouns, Hannah Rohde
28. Reference and informativeness, Catherine Davies and Jennifer E. Arnold
29. Prosody and meaning, Judith Tonhauser
30. Politeness, Thomas Holtgraves
31. Theory of Mind, Paula Rubio Fernandez
32. Turn-taking, J. P. de Ruiter