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: Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos: Introduction2: Dimitrios Skordos and David Barner: Language comprehension, inference, and alternatives3: Judith Degen and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Constraint-based pragmatic processing4: Richard Breheny: Scalar implicatures5: Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband: Event (de)composition6: Florian Schwarz: Presuppositions, projection, and accommodation7: Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou: Spatial terms8: Heather Ferguson: Counterfactuals9: Kristen Syrett: Distributivity10: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Genericity11: Rick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, and Yaron McNabb: Modified numerals12: Ye Tian and Richard Breheny: Negation13: Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli: Plurality14: Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlačil: Quantification15: Patricia J. Brooks and Olga Parshina: Quantifier spreading16: Stephanie Solt: Adjective meaning and scales17: Nicola Spotorno and Ira Noveck: Ironic utterances18: Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati: Metaphor19: Petra B. Schumacher: Metonymy20: Sam Alxatib and Uli Sauerland: Vagueness21: Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-François Bonnefon: Verbal uncertainty22: Hugh Rabagliati and Mahesh Srinivasan: Word senses23: Kristen Syrett: Antecedent-contained deletion24: Edgar Onea: Exhaustivity in it-clefts25: Christina S. Kim: Focus26: Ming Xiang: Negative Polarity Items27: Hannah Rohde: Pronouns28: Catherine Davies and Jennifer E. Arnold: Reference and informativeness29: Judith Tonhauser: Prosody and meaning30: Thomas Holtgraves: Politeness31: Paula Rubio Fernández: Theory of Mind32: J. P. de Ruiter: Turn-taking

I have no doubt that this original much needed volume will appeal not only to scholars who are relatively new to the new field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, but also to young researchers willing to pursue new research, and to more experienced scholars interested in interdisciplinary and empirical linguistics.