Daniel Altshuler
Biographic Data
| ID | 483458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Altshuler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Altshuler |
| SIGNATURE | ALTSHULER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4017-8412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Discourse expectations are sensitive to the Right Frontier Constraint
Understanding discourse requires comprehenders to infer the relations between clauses and sentences. These discourse relations are thought to be constrained by discourse structure. This study investigates how the Right Frontier Constraint (RFC), a structural constraint that predicts how discourse units can attach to each other, affects discourse coherence expectations triggered by implicit causality (IC) verbs during online comprehension. Using a…
Monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey
Previous studies on Gizey (glottocode: gize1234, Masa
Super Pragmatics of (linguistic-)pictorial discourse
Recent advances in the Super Linguistics of pictures have laid the Super Semantic foundation for modelling the phenomena of narrative sequencing and co-reference in pictorial and mixed linguistic-pictorial discourses. We take up the question of how one arrives at the pragmatic interpretations of such discourses. In particular, we offer an analysis of: (i) the discourse composition problem : how to represent the joint meaning of a multi-picture di…
The Forms and Functions of Switch Reference in A'ingae
This paper examines switch reference (SR) in A'ingae, an understudied isolate language from Amazonian Ecuador. We present a theoretically informed survey of SR, identifying three distinct uses of switch reference: in clause chaining, adverbial clauses, and so-called 'bridging' clause linkage. We describe the syntactic and semantic properties of each use in detail, the first such description for A'ingae, showing that the three constructions differ…
Coping With Imaginative Resistance
We propose to characterize imaginative resistance as the failure or unwillingness of the reader to take a fictional description of a deviant reality at face value. The goal of the paper is to explore how readers deal with such a breakdown of the default Face Value interpretation strategy. We posit two distinct interpretative ‘coping’ strategies which help the reader engage with the resistance-inducing fiction by attributing the offending content …
Linguistics Meets Philosophy
Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of rese…
Formal properties of now revisited
The traditional view is that now is a pure indexical, denoting the utterance time. Yet, despite its initial appeal, the view has faced criticism. A range of data reveal now allows for discourse-bound (i.e., anaphoric) uses, and can occur felicitously with the past tense. The reaction to this has typically been to treat now as akin to a true demonstrative, selecting the prominent time supplied by the non-linguistic context or prior discourse. We a…
By now: Change of state, epistemic modality and evidential inference
We examine the constellation of factors – lexical, aspectual, temporal and conversational – that give rise to evidential implications from assertions. We target intensional and inferential meanings associated with a certain class of present-tense state sentences: those containing a temporal adverb headed by by , e.g. The American traveling public is pretty mature by now . We ask why present-tense sentences containing by temporal adverbs (BTAs) ar…
(Non)culmination by abduction
Recent literature has aimed to explain (non-)culminating accomplishment inferences, which often involve the perfective aspect, but can also involve the imperfective. The goal of our paper is to explore how these inferences come about with the Hindi perfective and the Russian imperfective. We propose thatabduction, that is, inference to the best explanation, is ideally suited for this task. We show how the occurrence of a (non-)culminated event is…
Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
According to Ogihara (1995), the usage of the embedded present in a speech reportsuch as John said that Mary is in the room is restricted by the cause of John’s belief (the statethat made John think that Mary is in the room): the present tense can be used only if thiscause still holds at the time that John said that Mary is in the room is uttered. This paperpresents experimental evidence demonstrating that this is only one of the factors that lic…
The present perfective paradox across languages by Astrid De Wit
Reviewed by: The present perfective paradox across languages by Astrid De Wit Daniel Altshuler The present perfective paradox across languages. By Astrid De Wit. (Oxford studies of time in language & thought.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 221. ISBN 9780198759539. $90 (Hb). Reichenbach (1947:§51) proposed that English tenses encode three temporal coordinates: speech time (S), event time (E), and reference time (R). For simple tense…
A typology of partitive aspectual operators
Discourse transparency and the meaning of temporal locating adverbs
Aspectual Meaning Meets Discourse Coherence: A Look at the Russian Imperfective
This article investigates aspectual meaning and its interaction with independently motivated temporal constraints imposed by coherence relations. I argue that aspectual markers denote functions from a set of events denoted by a verb-phrase (VP) to a set of VP-event parts that are located relative to (i) an input encoding explicitly temporal information and (ii) an input encoding information about discourse connectivity. By virtue of encoding info…
Quantity-Insensitive Iambs in Osage
This paper presents evidence for the quantity‐insensitive iamb. Although many extant prosodic theories predict that qi iambs exist (e.g., Prince and Smolensky 2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993, and Halle and Vergnaud 1987), previously reported cases have not been verified by phonetic analysis. Some authors have even questioned the existence of qi iambs (e.g., Hayes 1995). The consequence of the existence of qi iambs is that foot headedness and quant…
WCO, ACD and what they reveal about complex demonstratives
A typology of partitive aspectual operators
Quantity-Insensitive Iambs in Osage
This paper presents evidence for the quantity‐insensitive iamb. Although many extant prosodic theories predict that qi iambs exist (e.g., Prince and Smolensky 2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993, and Halle and Vergnaud 1987), previously reported cases have not been verified by phonetic analysis. Some authors have even questioned the existence of qi iambs (e.g., Hayes 1995). The consequence of the existence of qi iambs is that foot headedness and quant…
By now: Change of state, epistemic modality and evidential inference
We examine the constellation of factors – lexical, aspectual, temporal and conversational – that give rise to evidential implications from assertions. We target intensional and inferential meanings associated with a certain class of present-tense state sentences: those containing a temporal adverb headed by by , e.g. The American traveling public is pretty mature by now . We ask why present-tense sentences containing by temporal adverbs (BTAs) ar…
(Non)culmination by abduction
Recent literature has aimed to explain (non-)culminating accomplishment inferences, which often involve the perfective aspect, but can also involve the imperfective. The goal of our paper is to explore how these inferences come about with the Hindi perfective and the Russian imperfective. We propose thatabduction, that is, inference to the best explanation, is ideally suited for this task. We show how the occurrence of a (non-)culminated event is…
Discourse transparency and the meaning of temporal locating adverbs
WCO, ACD and what they reveal about complex demonstratives
WCO, ACD and what they reveal about complex demonstratives
Quantity-Insensitive Iambs in Osage
This paper presents evidence for the quantity‐insensitive iamb. Although many extant prosodic theories predict that qi iambs exist (e.g., Prince and Smolensky 2004, McCarthy and Prince 1993, and Halle and Vergnaud 1987), previously reported cases have not been verified by phonetic analysis. Some authors have even questioned the existence of qi iambs (e.g., Hayes 1995). The consequence of the existence of qi iambs is that foot headedness and quant…
Aspectual Meaning Meets Discourse Coherence: A Look at the Russian Imperfective
This article investigates aspectual meaning and its interaction with independently motivated temporal constraints imposed by coherence relations. I argue that aspectual markers denote functions from a set of events denoted by a verb-phrase (VP) to a set of VP-event parts that are located relative to (i) an input encoding explicitly temporal information and (ii) an input encoding information about discourse connectivity. By virtue of encoding info…
A typology of partitive aspectual operators
Discourse transparency and the meaning of temporal locating adverbs
Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
According to Ogihara (1995), the usage of the embedded present in a speech reportsuch as John said that Mary is in the room is restricted by the cause of John’s belief (the statethat made John think that Mary is in the room): the present tense can be used only if thiscause still holds at the time that John said that Mary is in the room is uttered. This paperpresents experimental evidence demonstrating that this is only one of the factors that lic…
The present perfective paradox across languages by Astrid De Wit
Reviewed by: The present perfective paradox across languages by Astrid De Wit Daniel Altshuler The present perfective paradox across languages. By Astrid De Wit. (Oxford studies of time in language & thought.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 221. ISBN 9780198759539. $90 (Hb). Reichenbach (1947:§51) proposed that English tenses encode three temporal coordinates: speech time (S), event time (E), and reference time (R). For simple tense…
By now: Change of state, epistemic modality and evidential inference
We examine the constellation of factors – lexical, aspectual, temporal and conversational – that give rise to evidential implications from assertions. We target intensional and inferential meanings associated with a certain class of present-tense state sentences: those containing a temporal adverb headed by by , e.g. The American traveling public is pretty mature by now . We ask why present-tense sentences containing by temporal adverbs (BTAs) ar…
(Non)culmination by abduction
Recent literature has aimed to explain (non-)culminating accomplishment inferences, which often involve the perfective aspect, but can also involve the imperfective. The goal of our paper is to explore how these inferences come about with the Hindi perfective and the Russian imperfective. We propose thatabduction, that is, inference to the best explanation, is ideally suited for this task. We show how the occurrence of a (non-)culminated event is…
Formal properties of now revisited
The traditional view is that now is a pure indexical, denoting the utterance time. Yet, despite its initial appeal, the view has faced criticism. A range of data reveal now allows for discourse-bound (i.e., anaphoric) uses, and can occur felicitously with the past tense. The reaction to this has typically been to treat now as akin to a true demonstrative, selecting the prominent time supplied by the non-linguistic context or prior discourse. We a…
Coping With Imaginative Resistance
We propose to characterize imaginative resistance as the failure or unwillingness of the reader to take a fictional description of a deviant reality at face value. The goal of the paper is to explore how readers deal with such a breakdown of the default Face Value interpretation strategy. We posit two distinct interpretative ‘coping’ strategies which help the reader engage with the resistance-inducing fiction by attributing the offending content …
Linguistics Meets Philosophy
Linguistics and philosophy, while being two closely-related fields, are often approached with very different methodologies and frameworks. Bringing together a team of interdisciplinary scholars, this pioneering book provides examples of how conversations between the two disciplines can lead to exciting developments in both fields, from both a historical and a current perspective. It identifies a number of key phenomena at the cutting edge of rese…
Super Pragmatics of (linguistic-)pictorial discourse
Recent advances in the Super Linguistics of pictures have laid the Super Semantic foundation for modelling the phenomena of narrative sequencing and co-reference in pictorial and mixed linguistic-pictorial discourses. We take up the question of how one arrives at the pragmatic interpretations of such discourses. In particular, we offer an analysis of: (i) the discourse composition problem : how to represent the joint meaning of a multi-picture di…
The Forms and Functions of Switch Reference in A'ingae
This paper examines switch reference (SR) in A'ingae, an understudied isolate language from Amazonian Ecuador. We present a theoretically informed survey of SR, identifying three distinct uses of switch reference: in clause chaining, adverbial clauses, and so-called 'bridging' clause linkage. We describe the syntactic and semantic properties of each use in detail, the first such description for A'ingae, showing that the three constructions differ…
Discourse expectations are sensitive to the Right Frontier Constraint
Understanding discourse requires comprehenders to infer the relations between clauses and sentences. These discourse relations are thought to be constrained by discourse structure. This study investigates how the Right Frontier Constraint (RFC), a structural constraint that predicts how discourse units can attach to each other, affects discourse coherence expectations triggered by implicit causality (IC) verbs during online comprehension. Using a…
Monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey
Previous studies on Gizey (glottocode: gize1234, Masa
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