Barbara Abbott

Institution:Michigan State University

Linguistic Field:

Semantics
Pragmatics
Philosophy of language

Postal Address:

Linguistics & Languages, MSU,

A-614 Wells Hall E. Lansing,

MI USA 48824-1027

Selected Publications:

2006 Definite and indefinite . In Keith Browh, ed., the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics,
2nd ed., vol. 3. Oxford: Elsevier, 392-399.

2005 Conditionals in English and first order predicate logic . To appear in Journal of Foreign
Languages (Shanghai).

2005     Where have some of the presuppositions gone ? To appear in Betty Birner & Gregory
             Ward, eds., Drawing the boundaries of meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics
              and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2005 Some remarks on indicative conditionals . In Robert B. Young, ed., Proceedings from Semantics and
Linguistic Theory (SALT) 14. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, 1-19.

2005 Proper names and language . To appear in Greg Carlson & Francis Jeffry Pelletier, eds.,
Reference and quantification: The Partee effect. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2005    Issues in the semantics and pragmatics of definite descriptions in English . To
            appear in Jeanette Gundel & Nancy Hedberg, eds., Interdisciplinary perspectives on
            reference processing.

2004 Definiteness and indefiniteness . In Laurence R. Horn & Gregory Ward., eds.,
Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 122-149.

2003 A reply to Szabó’s "Descriptions and uniqueness". Philosophical Studies 113, 223-231.

2003 Some notes on quotation. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 17, 13-26.

2002 Donkey demonstratives. Natural Language Semantics 10, 285-298.

2002 Definiteness and proper names: Some bad news for the description theory . Journal
of Semantics 19, 191-201.

2001    Definiteness and identification in English . In Németh T. Enikö, ed., Pragmatics in 2000:
            Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 2. Antwerp:
            International Pragmatics Association, 1-15.

2000 Fodor and Lepore on meaning similarity and compositionality. Journal of Philosophy 97, 454-455.

2000 Presuppositions as nonassertions. Journal of Pragmatics 32, 1419-1437.

1999    Support for a unique theory of definite descriptions .   In Tanya Matthews & Devon
            Strolovitch, eds., Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory IX, 1-15. Ithaca: Cornell
            University.

1999 Water = H2O. Mind 108, 145-148.

1999 The formal approach to meaning . Journal of Foreign Languages (Shanghai) 119:1, 2-20.
1997 Models, truth, and semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy 20:2, 117-138.

1997 A note on the nature of 'water'. Mind 106, 311-319.

1997 Definiteness and existentials. Language 73:1, 103-108.

1996    Doing without a partitive constraint. J. Hoeksema, ed. Partitives: Studies on the syntax and
            semantics of partitive and related constructions (Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics
            (GRASS) 14), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 25-56.

1995 Thinking without English . Behavior and Philosophy 23:2, 49-55. [html]

1995 Some remarks on specificity. Linguistic Inquiry 26:2, 341-347.

1994 Referentiality, specificity, strength, and individual concepts. WCCFL (Proceedings of the West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics) 12, 473-484.

1993 A pragmatic account of the definiteness effect in existential sentences. Journal of Pragmatics 19, 39-55.

1993 Some remarks on a causal theory of word meaning. CLS (Papers from the Regional Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society) 29, vol. 2: The Parasession, 1-10.

1992    Definiteness, existentials, and the 'list' interpretation. C. Barker and D. Dowty, eds., SALT II:
            Proceedings of the Second Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Columbus: The
            Ohio State University, 1-16.