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    		 The Least Bits of Grammar: Pragmatics, Polarity, and the Logic of Scales.
    Cambridge Universtity Press (To appear in 2007).

    Articles

    Mental Spaces and Mental Verbs in Early Child English.
    In Language in the Context of Use: Cognitive Approaches to Language and Language Learning., Ande Tyler (ed.), Mouton de Gruyter. To appear. pdf

    How Children Get Constructions.
    In Pragmatics in Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, Mirjiam Fried & Jan-Ola Ostman (eds.), John Benjamins. To appear. pdf

    Saying Less and Meaning Less.
    In Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, Betty Birner and Gregory Ward (eds.), John Benjamins, pp. 143-162. 2006. pdf

    Common Sense and 'Literal Meaning'.
    In The Literal and Non-literal in Language and Thought, Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.), Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, pp. 147-177. 2005. pdf

    On Simile.
    with Jennifer Riddle Harding and Vera Tobin
    In Language, Culture, and Mind, Michel Achard and Suzanne Kemmer, (eds.) Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, pp. 123-135. 2004. pdf

    The Pragmatics of Polarity.
    In The Handbook of Pragmatics, Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward, (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 701-723. 2004. pdf

    Consistency and Creativity in Child Language.
    Berkeley Linguistics Society 28, 2002. pdf

    Literally speaking.
    Journal of Pragmatics, 34.4, pp. 423-32. 2002. pdf

    Minimizers, Maximizers, and the Rhetoric of Scalar Reasoning.
    Journal of Semantics. 18.4, pp. 297-331. 2001. pdf

    From States to Events:
    the acquisition of English passive participles.
    with Christopher Johnson and Patricia J. Brooks
    Cognitive Linguistics     11.1/2, pp. 103-30. 2000. pdf

    Some and the Pragmatics of Indefinite Construal.
    Berkeley Linguistics Society 25, pp. 169-182. 1999. pdf

    Ever: Polysemy and Polarity Sensitivity.
    Linguistic Notes from La Jolla 19, pp. 29-45. 1998. pdf

    The Scalar Model of Polarity Sensitivity:
    the case of the aspectual operators.
    In Negation: Syntax and Semantics. D. Forget, P. Hirschbühler, F. Martineau & M-L. Rivero (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 209-230. 1997. pdf

    Polarity Sensitivity as Lexical Semantics.
    Linguistics and Philosophy 19, pp. 619-666. 1996. pdf

    The Way Constructions Grow.
    In Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language.
    Adele Goldberg, (ed.). Stanford: CSLI. pp. 217-230. 1996. pdf

    Negative Polarity and Phantom Reference.
    Berkeley Linguistics Society 21, pp. 162-173. 1995. pdf

    Variation and the Usage-Based Model.
    Suzanne Kemmer & Michael Israel.
    Chicago Linguistics Society 30, Papers from Parasession on Variation and Linguistic Theory.     pp. 165-179. 1994.

    Reviews

    		 Communicating Quantities: a Psychological Perspective.
    by Linda Moxey and Antony J. Sanford
    In Journal of Pragmatics 31. pp. 603-607. 1999.

    Negative Contexts by Ton van der Wouden
    In Glot International 1.5. 1995.

    Translation

    		 "The Rhetoric of Drugs," an interview with Jacques Derrida.
    In Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies. 5.1, pp. 1-25. 1993.