[HTML][HTML] Semantics of gesture

C Ebert - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Current formal semantic theories aim at capturing gestural semantic contributions and in
particular their interplay with the semantics that stems from cooccurring speech. To grasp …

Gesture projection and cosuppositions

P Schlenker - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2018 - Springer
In dynamic theories of presupposition, a trigger pp′(eg it stopped raining) with
presupposition p (it rained) and at-issue component p′(it doesn't now rain) comes with a …

Demonstratives as dimension shifters

C Ebert, C Ebert, R Hörnig - Proceedings of Sinn und …, 2020 - ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de
Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures
contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal …

Gestural grammar

P Schlenker - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2020 - Springer
We argue that some properties of sign language grammar have counterparts in non-signers'
intuitions about gestures, including ones that are probably very uncommon. Thus despite the …

[HTML][HTML] The at-issue status of ideophones in German: An experimental approach

KR Barnes, C Ebert, R Hörnig, T Stender… - Glossa: a journal of …, 2022 - glossa-journal.org
Formal linguistics generally assumes that form-meaning relations in spoken language are
arbitrary and not iconic. Ideophones, such as the English splish-splash have been …

[HTML][HTML] Generative grammar: A meaning first approach

U Sauerland, A Alexiadou - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The theory of language must predict the possible thought—signal (or meaning—sound or
sign) pairings of a language. We argue for a Meaning First architecture of language where a …

What is Super Semantics?*

P Schlenker - Philosophical Perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary formal semantics was born from the project to treat natural languages as
formal languages, not just in their syntactic component (as generative syntax had done), but …

Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji

R Pasternak, L Tieu - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Among other uses, co-speech gestures can contribute additional semantic content to the
spoken utterances with which they coincide. A growing body of research is dedicated to …

Linguistic inferences without words

L Tieu, P Schlenker, E Chemla - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Contemporary semantics has uncovered a sophisticated typology of linguistic inferences,
characterized by their conversational status and their behavior in complex sentences. This …

[HTML][HTML] Super Linguistics: an introduction

P Patel-Grosz, S Mascarenhas, E Chemla… - Linguistics and …, 2023 - Springer
We argue that formal linguistic theory, properly extended, can provide a unifying framework
for diverse phenomena beyond traditional linguistic objects. We display applications to …