Publications
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In the pipeline
- The interpretation of implicit arguments in Paraguayan Guaraní. Judith Tonhauser. (manuscript)
Peer-reviewed journal publications
- Are there factive predicates? An empirical investigation. Judith Degen and Judith Tonhauser. Accepted with minor revisions at Language. (preprint)
- Prior beliefs modulate projection. Judith Degen and Judith Tonhauser. 2021. Open Mind 5: 59–70. (open access)
- Evaluative adjective sentences: A question-based analysis of projection. 2020. Judith Tonhauser, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Degen, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 87. 1–33. (doi)
- Projection variability in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2020. Judith Tonhauser, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 38:1263-1302. preprint
- How projective is projective content? Gradience in projectivity and at-issueness. 2018. Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver and Judith Degen, Journal of Semantics 35:495-542. (doi)
- The Best Question: Explaining the projection behavior of factive verbs. 2017. Mandy Simons, David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser, Discourse Processes 54:187-206. (doi)
- Contextual information and the prosodic realization of focus: A cross-linguistic comparison. 2015. Rory Turnbull, Rachel Burdin, Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30:1061-1076; special issue on Laboratory in the Field: Advances in Cross-Linguistic Psycholinguistics. (doi)
- Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages. 2015. Rachel Burdin, Sara Phillips-Bourass, Rory Turnbull, Murat Yasavul, Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser, Lingua 165:254-276; special issue on Prosody and Information Structure in Typological Perspective. (doi)
- Are ‘informative presuppositions’ presuppositions? 2015. Judith Tonhauser, Language and Linguistics Compass 9:77-101 (doi)
- Toward a taxonomy of projective content. 2013. Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons, Language 89:66-109. (pdf), Best Paper in Language 2013
- The prosody of focus in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2013. Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser, International Journal of American Linguistics 79:219-251. (doi)
- Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language. 2011. Judith Tonhauser, Linguistics & Philosophy 34:257-303. (doi)
- The diachrony and synchrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2011. Cory Shain and Judith Tonhauser, Language Variation and Change 22:321-346. (doi)
- Temporal interpretation without tense: Coordination constructions in Korean and Japanese. 2010. Jungmee Lee and Judith Tonhauser, Journal of Semantics 27:307-341. (doi)
- Word order in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2010. Judith Tonhauser and Erika Colijn, International Journal of American Linguistics 76:255-288. (doi)
- Nominal tense? The meaning of Guaraní nominal temporal markers. 2007. Judith Tonhauser, Language 83:831-869. (doi)
Invited, editor-reviewed journal papers
- Questions Under Discussion: Where information structure meets projective content. 2017. David Beaver, Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons and Judith Tonhauser, Annual Review of Linguistics 3:265-284. (doi)
- Cross-linguistic temporal reference. 2015. Judith Tonhauser, Annual Review of Linguistics 1:129-154. (doi)
- Defining cross-linguistic categories: The case of nominal tense. 2008. Reply to Nordlinger and Sadler (2008). Judith Tonhauser, Language 84:332-342. (doi)
Book chapters
- Managing web-experiments for psycholinguistics: An example from experimental semantics/pragmatics. 2022. Judith Degen and Judith Tonhauser, in Berez-Kroeker, A. L. and B. McDonnell and E. Koller (eds.) Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Open. pp.539-646.
- Temporal properties of noun phrases. 2021. Judith Tonhauser, in Gutzmann, D., Matthewson, L., C. Meier, H. Rullmann and T. E. Zimmermann (eds.) Companion to Semantics, New York: Wiley Blackwell. preprint
- Prosody and meaning: On the production, perception and interpretation of prosodically marked focus. 2019. Judith Tonhauser, in Cummins, C. and N. Katsos (eds.) Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.494-511. preprint
- Inferring meaning from indirect answers to polar questions: The contribution of the rise-fall-rise contour. 2019. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser, in Onea, E., M. Zimmermann, and K. von Heusinger (eds.) Questions in Discourse, Leiden: Brill Publishing, pp.132-163. preprint
- The distribution of implicit arguments in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2017. Judith Tonhauser, in Estigarribia, B. and J. Pinta (eds.) Guaraní Linguistics in the 21st Century, Leiden: Brill Publishing, pp.194-230. preprint
- Exploring meaning in the field: Temporal and aspectual reference. 2015. Rebecca Cover and Judith Tonhauser, in Bochnak, R. and L. Matthewson (eds.) Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.306-350. preprint
- Semantics of inflection. 2013. Paul Kiparsky and Judith Tonhauser, in Maienborn, C., K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, vol. 3, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.2070-2097. preprint
- The Paraguayan Guaraní future marker -ta: Formal semantics and cross-linguistic comparison. 2011. Judith Tonhauser, in Musan, R. and M. Rathert (eds.) Tense Across Languages, Tübingen: Niemeyer, pp.207-231. preprint
- Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses. 2011. Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser, in Nishida, C. and C. Russi (eds.) Cahier Chronos: Selected Proceedings of Chronos 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, pp.135-155. preprint
- Treating polarity sensitivity by lexical underspecification: Motivation from semantic scope. 2002. Judith Tonhauser, Linguistics on the Way into the Third Millenium, Bern: Peter Lang, pp.829-837.
Conference proceedings papers
- On the prosody of presupposition projection: A production experiment. 2019. Elena Vaiksnoraite, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser. North East Linguistic Society 49, pp.241-254.
- On the information structure sensitivity of projective content. 2019. Judith Tonhauser, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Shari R. Speer and Jon Stevens, Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, pp.923-949.
- The CommitmentBank: Investigating projection in naturally occurring discourse. 2019. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Mandy Simons and Judith Tonhauser, Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, pp.663-680.
- Predicting projection from rational use of prosody. 2017. Jon Stevens, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Shari R. Speer and Judith Tonhauser, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.1144-1149.
- Prosodic cues to presupposition projection. 2016. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26, Ithaca, LSA and CLC Publications, pp.934-960.
- Reportative evidentiality in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2014. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas 7, Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.189-204.
- Contrastive topics in Paraguayan Guaraní discourse. 2012. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22 , Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, pp.268-285.
- Diagnosing (not-)at-issue content. 2012. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas 6, Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.239-254.
- What projects and why?. 2011. [Mandy Simons, Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver and Craige Roberts, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, pp.309-327.
- On the prosodic coding of focus in Paraguayan Guaraní. 2011. Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 28, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp.249-257.
- Is Paraguayan Guaraní a tenseless language?. 2010. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas 5, Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.227-242.
- Presupposition, conventional implicature, and beyond: A unified account of projection. 2009. Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons, David Beaver and Judith Tonhauser, in Klinedinst, N. & D. Rothschild (eds.) New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Toulouse, France.
- Counterfactuality and future time reference: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní -mo’ã. 2009. Judith Tonhauser, Sinn und Bedeutung 13, University of Stuttgart, pp.527-541. [
- On the cross-linguistic interpretation of embedded tenses. 2009. Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser, Sinn und Bedeutung 13, University of Stuttgart, pp.307-320.
- What is nominal tense? A case study of Paraguayan Guaraní. 2007. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics of Under-represented Languages 3, Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.149-168.
- Agent focus and voice in Yucatec Maya. 2007. Judith Tonhauser, 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, pp.540-558.
- Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense. 2005. Judith Tonhauser, Sinn und Bedeutung 9, Nijmegen: Nijmegen Center for Semantics, pp.475-488.
- On the syntax and semantics of content questions in Yucatec Maya. 2003. Judith Tonhauser, 6th Workshop on American Indian Languages, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, vol.14, pp.106-121.
- F-constructions in Yucatec Maya. 2003. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas 2, Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications, pp.203-223.
- A dynamic semantic account of the temporal interpretation of noun phrases. 2002. Judith Tonhauser, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 12, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, pp.286-305.
- An approach to polarity sensitivity and negative concord by lexical underspecification. 2000. Judith Tonhauser, 7th International Conference on HPSG, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pp.285-304.
- Psychological constraints on plausible default inheritance reasoning. 1996. Carl Vogel and Judith Tonhauser, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann, pp.608-619.