Maria Esipova
Biographic Data
| ID | 8987763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Esipova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Esipova |
| SIGNATURE | ESIPOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7468-9184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In defense of exclamatory force
This commentary paper is a response to the target article by Andreas Trotzke and Anastasia Giannakidou, who argue that neither exclamatives like How smart Anya is! , nor declarative exclamations like Anya is so smart! have a special, exclamatory illocutionary force, but instead are both semantically equivalent to declaratives that assert propositions about the speaker’s attitude like I am amazed at how smart Anya is with respect to not only their…
The things that we can(not) exclaim
English famously has both wh- and nominal exclamatives (e.g., Portner & Zanuttini 2005). For instance, both What (strange) stories Nina tells! and The (strange) stories that Nina tells! are expressive speech acts about the very high degree that the stories that Nina tells have on some—explicit or implicit—scale. However, puzzlingly enough, Russian only has wh-, but not nominal exclamatives. I propose, partially following Esipova 2021, that both w…
Reps and representations
In this paper, I outline a grammar of lifting (i.e., resistance training) and compare it to that of language. I approach lifting as a system of generating complex meaning–form correspondences from regularized elements and describe the levels of mental representations and relationships between them that are involved in full command of this system. To be able to do so, I adopt a goal-based conception of meaning, which allows us to talk about mappin…
The Open Letter
Since its publication in July 2020, the Open Letter to the LSA regarding Steven Pinker has evoked many passionate reactions. The letter argued that Pinker's public statements are inconsistent with the LSA’s anti-racist values, asking to revoke Pinker's status as LSA Fellow and to remove him from the LSA's list of Media Experts. Signed by 600+ linguists, the letter has generated vigorous debate within and outside linguistics. This talk pushes the …
On not-at-issueness in pictures
In this paper, I make novel empirical observations about not-at-issue content in pictures, focusing on prohibition signs, and discuss the implications of these observations for our understanding of how meaning works in linguistic and non-linguistic systems. In particular, I show that for certain pieces of pictorial content, the at-issue vs. not-at-issue distinction is highly pragmatic, in a way that strongly resembles the restricting vs. non-rest…
Focus on what’s not at issue
This paper is an attempt to systematically investigate how contrastive focus interactswith various types of not-at-issue content (co-speech and post-speech gestures, lexical presuppositions,and appositives). I look, in particular, at when focus forces at-issue interpretationsof typically not-at-issue content, when it does not, and when such at-issue interpretations areimpossible even to satisfy focus-related requirements. I conclude that the main…
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Focus on what’s not at issue
This paper is an attempt to systematically investigate how contrastive focus interactswith various types of not-at-issue content (co-speech and post-speech gestures, lexical presuppositions,and appositives). I look, in particular, at when focus forces at-issue interpretationsof typically not-at-issue content, when it does not, and when such at-issue interpretations areimpossible even to satisfy focus-related requirements. I conclude that the main…
On not-at-issueness in pictures
In this paper, I make novel empirical observations about not-at-issue content in pictures, focusing on prohibition signs, and discuss the implications of these observations for our understanding of how meaning works in linguistic and non-linguistic systems. In particular, I show that for certain pieces of pictorial content, the at-issue vs. not-at-issue distinction is highly pragmatic, in a way that strongly resembles the restricting vs. non-rest…
The Open Letter
Since its publication in July 2020, the Open Letter to the LSA regarding Steven Pinker has evoked many passionate reactions. The letter argued that Pinker's public statements are inconsistent with the LSA’s anti-racist values, asking to revoke Pinker's status as LSA Fellow and to remove him from the LSA's list of Media Experts. Signed by 600+ linguists, the letter has generated vigorous debate within and outside linguistics. This talk pushes the …
Reps and representations
In this paper, I outline a grammar of lifting (i.e., resistance training) and compare it to that of language. I approach lifting as a system of generating complex meaning–form correspondences from regularized elements and describe the levels of mental representations and relationships between them that are involved in full command of this system. To be able to do so, I adopt a goal-based conception of meaning, which allows us to talk about mappin…
The things that we can(not) exclaim
English famously has both wh- and nominal exclamatives (e.g., Portner & Zanuttini 2005). For instance, both What (strange) stories Nina tells! and The (strange) stories that Nina tells! are expressive speech acts about the very high degree that the stories that Nina tells have on some—explicit or implicit—scale. However, puzzlingly enough, Russian only has wh-, but not nominal exclamatives. I propose, partially following Esipova 2021, that both w…
In defense of exclamatory force
This commentary paper is a response to the target article by Andreas Trotzke and Anastasia Giannakidou, who argue that neither exclamatives like How smart Anya is! , nor declarative exclamations like Anya is so smart! have a special, exclamatory illocutionary force, but instead are both semantically equivalent to declaratives that assert propositions about the speaker’s attitude like I am amazed at how smart Anya is with respect to not only their…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)