Brian Reese

Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto
Visiting Assistant Professor
Institute of Linguistics, ESL and Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota

Areas of Interest


Dissertation

2007Bias in Questions, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. [.pdf]
Supervisor: Nicholas Asher.

Recent papers and talks

2007 (with N. Asher) Biased Questions, Intonation and Discourse. Manuscript (extended version of the ISIS paper), University of Texas at Austin. Comments welcome.[.pdf]
(with N. Asher) Intonation and Discourse: Biased Questions. In S. Ishihra, S. Jannedy and A. Schwarz (eds.), Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 8, 1-38. [.pdf]
(with N. Asher) Prosody and the Interpretation of Tag Questions. In E. Puig-Waldmüller, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 448-462. [.pdf]
2006 (with P. Denis, E. McCready and A. Palmer) Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville MA.
The Meaning and Use of Negative Polar Interrogatives. In O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr, Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 6. Papers presented at CSSP 2005, 331-334. [.pdf]
(with N. Asher and P. Denis) Names and Pops and Discourse Structure. Presented at the 2006 Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, Maynooth, Ireland, July 7-9.
(with N. Asher, J. Hunter and P. Denis) Evidentiality and intensionality: Two uses of reportative constructions in discourse. Presented at the 2006 Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, Maynooth, Ireland, July 7-9.
(with N. Asher) Prosody and the Interpretation of Tag Questions. Presented at Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (Joint JSAI Workshop), Tokyo; June.
Negative Polar Interrogatives and Bias. In T. Washio et al., New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings, 85-92. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
The Biasing Effect of NPIs in Questions. Presented at The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago; April.
2005 (with N. Asher) Negative Bias in Polar Questions. In E. Maier, C.Bary and J.Huitnik, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, 30-43. [.pdf]
Book review: True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English, Christine Gunlogson, Routledge 2003. Appeared in LINGUIST List.
(with L. Wang and E. McCready) The Projection Problem of Nominal Appositives. In Snippets (Issue 10) 13-14. [.pdf]
2004 (with N. Asher, J. Kuhn, E. Larson, P. Denis, E. McCready, A. Palmer and K. Wang) Extracting and Using Discourse Structure to Resolve Anaphoric Dependencies: Combining Logico-Semantic and Statistical Approaches. In TALN Proceedings (SDRT Workshop), Fès, Morocco, 515-524.
2003 (Non)Coreference Effects and Bound Variable Anaphora in Hindi Experiencer Predicates. Qualifying Paper, UT-Austin. Spring 2003 [.ps]
2002 (with E. McCready) Counterfactual Morphology and the Licensing of Modal Subordination in Hindi. Presented at South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable XXII, University of Iowa; June 22.
2001 Non-coreference Effects in Hindi Experiencer Constructions. Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin; October.
Improper Subjects in Hindi Experiencer Constructions. Presented at South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable XXI, University of Konstanz; October 8.

Contact Information

211 Nolte Center
315 Pillsbury Drive S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 1-612-626-4507
Email: breese[at]umn[dot]edu

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