Selected Publications

Organized by: Article typeYear.
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In Press

• Bale, A. and D. Barner. (in press). Semantic triggers, linguistic variation and the mass-count distinction. [Book Chapter in A Cross Linguistic Exploration of the Count Mass Distinction, Oxford University Press] (draft-pdf )

• Bale, A., and D. Barner (in press). Grammatical alternatives and pragmatic development. In Anamaria Falaus (ed.), Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave.

• Bale, A. (in press). Number, competition and syntactic complexity. To appear in Proceedings of the 41st annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 41). (draft-pdf)

2011

• Barner, D., & Bale, A. (2011). Mass-count distinction. In M. Aronoff (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press. (link)

• Barner, D., N. Brooks and A. Bale. (2011). Accessing the unsaid: The role of scalar alternatives in children's pragmatic inference. Cognition 188, 87-96.

• Bale, A., M. Gagnon and H. Khanjian (2011). On the relationship between morphological and semantic markedness: The case of plural morphology. Morphology 21(2). 197-221. (draft-pdf)

• Bale, A. (2011). Scales and comparison classes. Natural Language Semantics 19(2), 169-190. (draft-pdf)

• Bale, A., M. Gagnon and H. Khanjian. (2011). Cross-linguistic representations of numerals and number marking. In N. Li and D. Lutz (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XX. pp. 582-598 (draft-pdf )

• Barner, D., N. Brooks and A. Bale (2011). Quantity implicature and access to scalar alternatives in language acquisition. In N. Li and D. Lutz (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XX. pp. 525-554 (draft-pdf )

2010

• Brooks, N., A. Bale and D. Barner. (2010). Accessing the unsaid: The role of scalar alternatives in children’s pragmatic inference. In S. Ohlsson and R. Catrambone (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (COGSCI 32) Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1178-1183.

2009

• Bale, A., & Barner, D. (2009) The interpretation of functional heads: Using comparatives to explore the mass/count distinction. Journal of Semantics 26(3): 217-252. (Link to pdf)

• Bale, A. and H. Khanjian (2009). Classifiers and number marking. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XVIII. (draft-pdf)

• Bale, A. (2009) Yet more evidence for the emptiness of plurality. In A. Schardl, M. Walkow & M. Abdurrahman (eds.), NELS 38: Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, v.1. 75-88. (draft -pdf

2008

• Bale, A. (2008). A universal scale of comparison. Linguistics and Philosophy 31(1): 1-55. (Abstract, Link to pdf

2007

• Bale, A. (2007). Quantifiers and verb phrases: An exploration of propositional complexity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25(3), 447-483. (Abstract, pdf

2006

• May, R., & Bale, A. (2006). Inverse linking. In M. Everaert and H. van Riemsdijk (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. (Abstract, pdf)

• Bale, A. (2006). Quantifiers, ‘again’ and the complexity of verb phrases. In E. Georgala and J. Howell (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XV. Ithaca, New York: CLC Publications. (pdf)

• Bale, A. (2006). The Universal Scale and the Semantics of Comparison, Ph.D. 
Dissertation. McGill University. (Abstract, pdf )

2005

• Barner, D., & Bale, A. (2005). No nouns, no verbs? Rejoinder to Panagiotidis. Lingua, 115, 1169-1179 (Abstract, pdf)

2002

• Barner, D., & Bale, A. (2002). No nouns, no verbs: Psycholinguistic arguments in favor of lexical underspecification. Lingua, 112, 771-791. (Abstract, pdf)