Benjamin Spector - Selected Publications#

Google Scholar H-Index: 24

While several of Spector's contribution have been very influential in the field of natural language semantics and pragmatics, one specific paper is highlighted, co-authored with Gennaro Chierchia and Danny Fox, which is now the `classic' reference on the grammatical approach to exhaustivity effects. This paper received over 900 citations on Google Scholar (putting together all the versions mentioned on googlescholar, including under an alternative title, `the grammatical view of scalar implicatures and the relationship between semantics and pragmatics').:

1. Chierchia, Gennaro, Fox, Danny et Benjamin Spector (2012). Scalar Implicature as a Grammatical Phenomenon. In An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning Semantics, vol 3 eds. P. Portner, C. Maienborn et K. von Heusinger, Mouton de Gruyter

Other articles:

2. Maldonado, M., Chemla, E. & Spector, B. (2019). Revealing abstract semantic mechanisms through priming: The distributive/collective contrast. Cognition, 182, 171-176. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.009

3. Fox, Danny & Benjamin Spector (2018). Economy and Embedded Exhaustification. Natural Language Semantics. 10.1007/s11050-017-9139-6.

4. Spector, Benjamin & Yasutada Sudo (2017). Presupposed Ignorance and Exhaustivity: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact. Linguistics and Philosophy 40, 473–517.

5. Spector, Benjamin (2016). Comparing Exhaustivity Operators. Semantics and Pragmatics, 9:11.doi:10.3765/sp.9.1.

6. Spector, Benjamin et Paul Egré (2015). A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives : an answer, not necessarily the answer. Synthese 192(6), 1729–1784.

7. Spector, Benjamin (2014). Global Positive Polarity Items and Obligatory Exhaustivity. Semantics and Pragmatics. 7:11, p. 1-61, doi:10.3765/sp.7.11

8. Chemla Emmanuel et Benjamin Spector (2011). Experimental evidence for embedded scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics 28 (3): 359-400.

9. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Aspects of the pragmatics of plural morphology: on higher-order implicatures. In U. Sauerland & P. Stateva (ed.), Presuppositions and Implicatures in Compositional Semantics, Palgrave-Macmillan.

10. Spector, Benjamin (2007). Scalar implicatures: exhaustivity & Gricean reasoning. In M. Aloni & P. Dekker (ed.), Questions in Dynamic Semantics, Current Issues in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 17, Elsevier.