Daniel Buring

Writings

papers on unalternative semantics can also be found on their own page

Reviewed Publications

(see below for proceedings, non-reviewed contributions to books, and manuscripts)

(2023) with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska, and Max Prüller "Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Focus Marking". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09567-4.
(2021) with Hubert Truckenbrodt "Correspondence between XPs and Phonological Phrases". Linguistic Inquiry 52:4. 791-811. DOI https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00391.
(2019) Focus, Questions and Givenness. In: Klaus von Heusinger, Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann (eds) Questions in Discourse. 6-44
(2019) Topless and Salient — Convertibles in the Theory of Focus. In: Daniel Altshuler and Jessica Rett (eds) The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times -- Essays in Honor of Roger Schwarzschild. 137--155.
(2016) Discontinuous Focus and Unalternative Semantics. Linguistica LVI. 67-82
(2016) Intonation and Meaning. Oxford University Press.
(2016) "(Contrastive) Topic". In: Caroline Féry and Shin Ishihara (eds) Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford University Press. 64-85
(2015) ``Advantage'': Obligatory Binding Into Finite Complements? Grazer Linguistische Studien 83.
(2015) with Katharina Hartmann Semantic Coordination Without Syntactic Coordinators. In: Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csuri and Emile van der Zee (eds) Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music, and Cognition in Honor of Ray Jackendoff. MIT Press.
(2013/15) "A Theory of Second Occurrence Focus". Language and Cognitive Processes/Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30 (1-2), 73-87. DOI 10.1080/01690965.2013.835433
(2013) with Manuel Kriz; "It's That, and That's It! Exhaustivity and Homogeneity Presuppositions in Clefts (And Definites)". Semantics & Pragmatics 6:6. 1-29.
(2013) "Syntax and Prosody, Syntax and Meaning". In: Marcel den Dikken, (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 860-896.
(2012) "Predicate Integration --- Phrase Structure or Argument Structure?" In: Ivona Kucerova and Ad Neeleman (eds) Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure. Cambridge University Press. 27-47.
(2012) "Focus and Intonation". In: Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara (eds), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. London: Routledge. 103-115.
(2011) "Pronouns". In: Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn and Paul Portner, (eds) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 33/2. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 971-996.
(2011) "Binding", "Focus", "Topic and Comment". Three short entries for: Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2009) "Towards a Typology of Focus Realization". In: Malte Zimmermann & Caroline Féry (eds) Information Structure. OUP. 177-205.
(2007) "Intonation, Semantics and Information Structure ". In: Gillian Ramchand & Charles Reiss (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
(2006) "Focus Projection and Default Prominence". In Valéria Molnár and Susanne Winkler (eds) The Architecture of Focus. Berlin/New York: Mouton De Gruyter.
(2006) "Intonation und Informationsstruktur". In H. Blühdorn, E. Breindl and U.H. Waßner (eds) Text --- Verstehen. Grammatik und darüber hinaus. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. 144-163.
(2005) "Bound to Bind". Linguistic Inquiry 36:2. 259-274.
(2005) Binding Theory. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
(2004) "Focus Suppositions" Theoretical Linguistics 30:1. 65-76.
(2004) "Crossover Situations". Natural Language Semantics 12:1. 23-62.
(2003) "On D-Trees, Beans, and B-Accents". Linguistics & Philosophy 26:5. 511-545.
(2001) "What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't?". In: Féry, C. & W. Sternefeld (eds) Audiatur Vox Sapentiae - A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. (=studia grammatica 52). Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 70-100.
with K. Hartmann (2001) "The Syntax and Semantics of Focus-Sensitive Particles in German. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory19:229-281
(2001) "Let's Phrase It! -- Focus, Word Order, and Prosodic Phrasing in German Double Object Constructions". In: Müller, G. & W. Sternefeld (eds) Competition in Syntax.(= Studies in Generative Grammar 49). Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. 69-105.
(1999) "Topic". In: Bosch, Peter & Rob van der Sandt (eds)(1999) Focus -- Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives. CUP. 142-165.
with K. Hartmann (1998) "Asymmetrische Koordination". Linguistische Berichte 174/1998. 172-201
(1997) The Meaning of Topic and Focus -- The 59th Street Bridge Accent. London: Routledge.
(1997) "The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy". Linguistics & Philosophy 20. 175- 194.
with K. Hartmann (1997) "Doing the Right Thing". The Linguistic Review 14. 1-42.
(1995) "On the Base Position of Embedded Clauses in German". Linguistische Berichte 159. 370-380.
(1992) Linking. Hürth: Gabel (=KLAGE Nr.27).

Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language

Edited Volumes

(2007) Lee, Chungmin, Matthew Gordon, and Daniel Büring. Topic and Focus: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation; Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 82. Springer

Other Writings (Selection)

(see above for reviewed publications)

(2021) (with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska and Max Prüller ) "Relational Focus Semantics Ms.
(2021) (with Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller and Muriel Assmann) "Second Occurrence Focus in Wolof: Patterns and Consequences" Proceedings of TripleA 6 67-78
(2019) (with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska, and Max Prüller) Focus Size in Non-Prosodically Focus-Marking Languages" Proceedings of NELS 49. 73-86.
(2018) (with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska, and Max Prüller) Focus Constraints on Ellipsis — An Unalternatives Account. In: Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 2017. 109-126.
(2017) Ja doch! In: Clemens Mayr and Edwin Williams: Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82. 23-35.
(2016) A Beginner's Guide to Unalternative Semantics. Manuscript, University of Vienna
(2015) Unalternative Semantics. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25.
(2012) "Reciprocal Reflexives" In: Thomas Graf and Denis Paperno and Anna Szabolcsi and Jos Tellings Theories of Everything: In Honor of Ed Keenan. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, no.17, 2012. 22-34.
(2010) Conditional Exhaustivity Presuppositions in Clefts (And Definites) Draft note. ZAS.
(2008) What's New (and What's Given) in the Theory of Focus?" Berkeley Linguistic Society.
(2008) "Comparative Sandwichology". WECOL 2007. UC San Diego.
(2008) with Andrew Kehler "Be Bound or Be Disjoint!". NELS 38. Ottawa.
(2008) "The Least at least Can Do". Proceedings of WCCFL 26. Berkeley.
(2007) "Cross-Polar Nomalies". SALT XVII. U Connecticut.
(2007) "More Or Less". Chicago Linguistic Society 2007.
(2006) "Been There, Marked That --- A Tentative Theory of Second Occurrence Focus". Manuscript.
(2004) "Negative Inversion. NELS 2004
(2002) "Orphan Attributes". WCCFL 21
(2001) "A Situation Semantics for Binding out of DP". SALT XI
(2001) "Discourse-Trees and Dynamic Updates". Manuscript.
(2001) with R. Gutiérrez-Bravo "Focus Related Word Order Variation Without the NSR: A Prosody-Based Crosslinguistic Analysis". Syntax at Santa Cruz 3
( 2000) with Ch. Gunlogson "Aren't Positive and Negative Polar Questions the Same?". Manuscript UCSC/UCLA.
( 1998) "Identity, Modality, and the Candidate Behind the Wall". SALT VIII
(1996) "Economy". Sprachwissenschaft in Frankfurt 17. Frankfurt, Main.
(1996) "A Weak Theory of Strong Readings". SALT VI
(1996) "On Drinking, Accents, and Negation". 1995 Amherst Focus Workshop.
(1995) with K. Hartmann "Is it [only Rock'n Roll] Or Just Like It?" WCCFL 14

Daniel Büring

Writings

Reviewed Publications

Edited Volumes

Other Writings (Selection)