Selected Publications
Organized by: Article
type, Year.
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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.
• 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)