Research

Publications and edited collections

* = joint lead author/editor

To appear

• K. von Fintel* & R. Pasternak*. Attitudes, aboutness, and indirect restriction. Accepted with minor revisions, Linguistics and Philosophy.

2024

• L. Tieu, J.L. Qiu, V. Puvipalan & R. Pasternak. Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (advance access).

2022

• U. Sauerland & R. Pasternak (eds.). Non-Conservativity with Precise Proportions. Special collection for Glossa.

• R. Pasternak* & U. Sauerland*. German measurement structures: Case-marking and non-conservativity. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 25(2): 221-272.

• R. Pasternak* & L. Tieu*. Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 75(1). 1828-1843.

• R. Pasternak. Some speculative remarks on the semantics of money phrases. In N. Gotzner & U. Sauerland (eds.), Measurement, numerals and scales: Essays in honour of Stephanie Solt. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2021

• R. Pasternak & T. Graf. Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser. Glossa 6(1): 8. 1-34.

2020

• R. Pasternak. Compositional trace conversion. Semantics & Pragmatics 13(14). 1-48.

2019

• R. Pasternak. A lot of hatred and a ton of desire: intensity in the mereology of mental states. Linguistics and Philosophy 42(3). 267-316.

• R. Pasternak. Unifying partitive and adjective-modifying percent. Snippets 37. 77-79.

• R. Pasternak. The projection of co-speech sound effects. Unpublished Manuscript, Leibniz-Center for General Linguistics (ZAS).

2018

• L. Tieu, R. Pasternak, P. Schlenker & E. Chemla. Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments. Glossa 3(1): 109. 1-21.

• R. Pasternak. Thinking alone and thinking together. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28. 546-565.

• R. Pasternak. The Mereology of Attitudes. Stony Brook University Ph.D. dissertation.

2017

• L. Tieu, R. Pasternak, P. Schlenker & E. Chemla. Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks. Glossa 3(1): 109. 1-21.

2016

• R. Pasternak. A conservative theory of gradable modality. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26. 371-390.