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David I Beaver

PhD, Edinburgh

Publications

Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2008) Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (to appear) “Presupposition”, in Maienborn, C., K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner (eds). Semantics: An. International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, de Gruyter, Berlin.

Beaver, D. (in press) “Have you Noticed that your Belly Button Lint Colour is Related to the Colour of your Clothing?”, in Rainer B¨auerle, Uwe Reyle, and Thomas E. Zimmermann (eds.), Presuppositions and Discourse. Elsevier, Oxford. (34 pages).

Beaver, D. (in press) “As brief as possible (but no briefer)”, Theoretical Linguistics.

Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (to appear) “Presupposition”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Geurts, B. and D. Beaver (2007) “Discourse Representation Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Beaver, D. and H. Zeevat (2007) “Accommodation”, in Ramchand, G. and C. Reiss (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, Oxford University Press (35 pages).

Aloni, M., D. Beaver, B. Clark and R. van Rooij (2007) “The Dynamics of Topic and Focus”. In Aloni, M., A. Butler, and P. Dekker (eds.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Elsevier, Amsterdam (pp. 123-145).

Beaver, D. and Condoravdi, C. (2007) “On the Logic of Verbal Modification”, in P. Dekker and F. Roelofson (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam.

Nenkova, A., Brenier, J., A. Kothari, D. Jurafsky, S. Calhoun, D. Beaver, and L. Whitton (2007). “To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech”, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2007.

Beaver, D., B. Clark, E. Flemming, T. F. Jaeger, and M.Wolters (2007), “When Semantics Meets Phonetics: Acoustical Studies of Second Occurrence Focus”, Language 83.2 (pp. 245–276).

Brenier, J., A. Nenkova, A. Kothari, L. Whitton, D. Beaver, and D. Jurafsky (2006). “The (non)Utility of Linguistic Features for Predicting Prominence in Spontaneous Speech”, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology.

Wasow, T., A. Perfors and D. Beaver (2005) “The Puzzle of Ambiguity”, in Orgun, C. O. and P. Sells (eds.), Essays in Memory of Steve Lapointe, CSLI Publications (18 pages).

Beaver, D., I. Francez and D. Levinson (2005) “Bad Subject: (Non-)Canonicality and NP Distribution in Existentials”, in E. Georgala and J. Howell (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic. Theory XV, CLC Publications, Ithaca, New York (pp. 19–43).

Beaver, D. (2004) “Accommodating Topics”, in Kamp, H. and B. H. Partee (eds.), Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning, Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, vol. 11, Elsevier (pp. 79–90).

Beaver D. and H. Lee (2004) “Input-Output Mismatches in OT”, in Blutner, R. and H. Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics, Palgrave/Macmillan (pp. 112–153).

Beaver, D. (2004) “Five Only Pieces”, Theoretical Linguistics 30 (pp. 45–64).

Beaver, D. (2004) “The Optimization of Discourse Anaphora”, Linguistics and Philosophy 27:1 (pp. 3–56).

Beaver, D. and C. Condoravdi (2003) “A Uniform Analysis of Before and After”, in Young, R. and Y. Zhou (eds), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XIII, CLC Publications, Cornell (pp. 37–54).

Beaver D. and H. Lee (2003) “Form-Meaning Asymmetries and Bidirectional Optimization”, in Spenader, J., A. Eriksson and O. Dahl (eds.), Variation within Optimality Theory, University of Stockholm (pp. 138–148).

Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2003) “ ‘Always’ and ‘Only’: Why not all Focus Sensitive Operators are Alike”, Natural Language Semantics 11:4 (pp. 323–362).

Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2002) “Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity”, in Jackson, B. (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XI, CLC Publications, Cornell (pp.40–58).

Beaver, D. and B. Clark (2002) “The Proper Treatments of Focus Sensitivity”, in Potts, C. and L. Mikkelsen (eds.), Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XXI, Cascadilla Press (pp. 15–28).

Beaver, D. (2002) “Presupposition in DRT”, in Beaver, D., L. Casillas, B. Clark and S. Kaufmann (eds.), The Construction of Meaning, CSLI Publications (pp. 23–43).

Beaver, D. (2002) “Pragmatics, and That’s an Order”, in Barker-Plummer, D., D.Beaver, J. van Benthem, and P. Scotto di Luzio (eds.), Logic, Language and Visual Information, CSLI Publications (pp. 191–215).

Beaver, D., L. Casillas, B. Clark, S. Kaufmann (eds.) (2002) The Construction of Meaning, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Barker-Plummer, D., D. Beaver, J. van Benthem and P. Scotto di Luzio (eds.) (2002) Logic, Language and Visual Information, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Wolters, M. and D. Beaver (2001) “What does he mean?”, in Moore, J. and K. Stenning (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey (pp. 1176–1180).

Beaver, D. (2001) Presupposition and Assertation in Dynamic Semantics, Studies in Logic Language and Information, CSLI Publications (328 pages), Stanford, CA.

Beaver, D. and E. Krahmer (2001) “A Partial Account of Presupposition Projection”, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 10:2 (pp. 142–182).

Beaver, D. (1999) “The Logic of Anaphora Resolution”, in Dekker, P. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 55–60).

Aloni, M., D. Beaver and B. Clark (1999) “Topic and Focus Sensitivity”, in Dekker, P. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 61–66).

Beaver, D. (1999) “Presupposition: A Plea for Common Sense”, in Moss, L., J. Ginzburg and M. de Rijke (eds.), Logic, Language and Computation, vol. 2, CSLI Publications (pp. 21–44) (revised version of Beaver, D. (1994) “An Infinite Number of Monkeys”).

Beaver, D. (1999) “Pragmatics (to a First Approximation)”, in Gerbrandy, J., M. Marx, M. de Rijke, and Y. Venema (eds.), JFAK — Essays Dedicated to Johan van Benthem on the Occasion of his 50th Birthday, Vossiuspers, Amsterdam University Press (13 pages).

Beaver, D. (1997) “Presupposition”, in van Benthem, J. and A. ter Meulen (eds.), The
Handbook of Logic and Language
, Elsevier (pp. 939–1008).

Dekker, P. and D. Beaver (1997) Report on ECDS: An Interactive Course on the Internet, Report number X-97-01, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (16 pages).

Beaver, D. (1996) “Local Satisfaction Preferred”, in Dekker, P. and M. Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 57–72).

Krause, P. and D. Beaver (1995) “The Architecture and Semantic Representation Formats of DYANA’s Integrated Implementation”, in Beaver, D. (ed.), The Dyana Integrated Implementation, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam
(pp. 1–27).

Beaver, D. and I. van der Bovenkamp (1995) “Application and Implementation of Information Packaging”, in Beaver, D. (ed.), The Dyana Integrated Implementation, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 43–58).

Beaver, D. (1994) “When Variables Don’t Vary Enough”, in Harvey, M. and L. Santelmann (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory IV, Cornell (pp. 35–60).

Beaver, D. (1994) “An Infinite Number of Monkeys”, Acta Linguistica Hungarica 42:3 (pp. 253–270).

Beaver, D. (1993) “Two Birds and one Stone”, in Kamp, H. (ed.), Presupposition, DYANA-2 R2.2a, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 1–29).

Beaver, D. (1993) “Kinematic Montague Grammar”, in Kamp, H. (ed.), Presupposition, DYANA-2 R2.2a, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 75–133).

Beaver, D. (1992) “The Kinematics of Presupposition”, in Dekker, P. and M. Stockhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation Publications, Amsterdam (pp. 17–36).

Beaver, D., A. Black, R. Cooper and I. Lewin (1991) “Dynamic Montague Grammar in Extended Kamp Notation”, in Seligman, J. (ed.) Partial and Dynamic Semantics III, DYANA R2.1c, University of Edinburgh.

Beaver, D., “DMG through the Looking Glass”, 1991, in Stokhof, M., J. Groenendijk and D. Beaver (eds.) Quantification and Anaphora I, DYANA R2.2a, University of Edinburgh.

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