Verbal anaphor interpretation in context
This is a list of my papers and presentations on the role of the broader discourse context in verbal anaphor interpretation, focusing on the interpretation of verb phrase ellipsis.
Journal
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2021). At the syntax-discourse interface: Verb phrase ellipsis interpretation in context. Language 97(1). e89-e110. [pdf] [osf]
Proceedings
LSA 92
Kanan Luce, Jeffrey Geiger, Christopher Kennedy & Ming Xiang (2018). Interpretations of VP anaphora through reference to salient events. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3(38). 1-13. [proceedings]
NELS 47
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). "Context can!": Contextual accommodation in exophoric and anaphoric verb phrase ellipsis. In A. Lamont & K. Tetzloff, eds., Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 35-44. [proceedings]
Conference talks
CUNY 32
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). A probabilistic account of VPE interpretation in context. 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. March 31. [slides]
LSA 92
Kanan B. Luce, Jeffrey Geiger, Chris Kennedy & Ming Xiang (2018). Interpretations of VP anaphora through reference to salient events. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT. January 7. [slides]
Conference posters
XPrag 7
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). Ellipsis in context: The interaction of identity and discourse salience. 7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Cologne, Germany. June 21. [poster]
CUNY 30
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). Ellipsis in context: Identity and salience both drive interpretation. 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, MA. March 30. [poster]
NELS 47
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2016). "Context can!": Contextual accommodation in exophoric and anaphoric verb phrase ellipses. 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. Amherst, MA. October 14. [poster]