Work

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Journal Articles

• Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida. Forthcoming. Obligatory irrelevance and the computation of ignorance inferences. Journal of Semantics.
• Emmanuel Chemla, Brian Buccola, and Isabelle Dautriche. Forthcoming. Connecting content and logical words. Journal of Semantics.
• Brian Buccola, Isabelle Dautriche, and Emmanuel Chemla. 2018. Competition and symmetry in an artificial word learning task. Frontiers in Psychology 9(2176).
• Brian Buccola. 2018. A restriction on the distribution of exclusive only. Snippets 33. 3–4.
• Brian Buccola and Benjamin Spector. 2016. Modified numerals and maximality. Linguistics and Philosophy 39(3). 151–199. (preprint)
• Bernhard Schwarz, Brian Buccola, and Michael Hamilton. 2012. Two types of class B numeral modifiers: A reply to Nouwen 2010. Semantics and Pragmatics 5(1). 1–25.

Manuscripts

• Brian Buccola, Manuel Križ, and Emmanuel Chemla. 2018. Conceptual alternatives: Competition in language and beyond. Under review.
• Emmanuel Chemla, Isabelle Dautriche, Brian Buccola, and Joel Fagot. 2018. Constraints on the lexicons of human languages have cognitive roots present in baboons (Papio papio). Under review.
• Brian Buccola and Emmanuel Chemla. 2018. Two notes on the disjunct alternatives of disjunction. In revision.
• Brian Buccola. 2017. Bare numerals, collectivity, and genericity: A new puzzle. In revision.

Proceedings Papers

• Amir Anvari, Brian Buccola, and Andreas Haida. In prep. Alternative Questions in Farsi. Sinn und Bedeutung 23. (slides from a previous workshop)
• Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida. 2017. Expressing agent indifference in German. Amsterdam Colloquium 21. 165–174.
• Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida. 2017. A surface-scope analysis of authoritative readings of modified numerals. Sinn und Bedeutung 21. 233–248.
• Brian Buccola. 2016. Severing maximality from fewer than: Evidence from genericity. Sinn und Bedeutung 20. 127–144.
• Brian Buccola. 2015. Variable monotonicity and less than: When Van Benthem’s problem is not a problem. North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 45. 125–134.
• Brian Buccola. 2013. On the expressivity of Optimality Theory versus ordered rewrite rules. Formal Grammar. 142–158. (preprint)

Other

• Brian Buccola. 2015. Maximality in the semantics of modified numerals. Montreal, Canada: McGill University PhD thesis.
• Brian Buccola. 2013. Two proofs that classic Optimality Theory is expressively weaker than ordered rewrite rules. Montreal, Canada: McGill University second evaluation paper. (Mostly superseded by Buccola 2013, Formal Grammar; see above.)
• Brian Buccola. 2012. Some remarks on inference patterns involving epistemic modality. Montreal, Canada: McGill University first evaluation paper.