Torgrim Solstad

Recent publications and presentations

 

Recent publications

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In preparation:

• "The mechanics of causal interpretation: Explaining the implicit causality bias", to be submitted to Cognition (with Oliver Bott)
• "Abductive inferences in explanatory discourse", to be submitted to Discourse Processes (with Oliver Bott)
• "Implicit Causality Bias across Languages - German vs. Norwegian." To be submitted to Hemforth et al. (eds.): Psycholinguistic approaches to meaning and understanding across language (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics), Springer (with Oliver Bott)

2011

• "Reambiguating: on the non-monotonicity of disambiguation", in Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.): Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 8, pp. 167–194 (with Fritz Hamm)

2010

• "Post-nominal genitives and prepositional phrases in German: A uniform analysis", in Artemis Alexiadou & Monika Rathert (eds.): The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 219–251.
• "Some new observations on 'because (of)'", in Maria Aloni et al. (eds.): Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Berlin: Springer, pp. 436–445.

Recent presentations

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2012

• "Prosodic effects of implicit causality in German and Norwegian?", Nordic Prosody XI, Tartu, August 15-17, 2012 (with Bistra Andreeva, Oliver Bott and Jacques Koreman)
• "Implizite Kausalität im Diskurs - ein semantisches Modell inkrementeller Diskursverarbeitung", Semantik und Pragmatik im Südwesten, Tübingen University, May 11-12, 2012 (with Oliver Bott)
• "Crosslinguistic variation in explanatory discourse? – Implicit causality of verbs in German and Norwegian", International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Freiburg, April 18-20, 2012 (with Oliver Bott).
• "The mechanics of causal interpretation: Explaining the implicit causality bias", 25. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 14-16, 2012 (with Oliver Bott)
• "The interplay of verbal information and discourse structure: a crosslinguistic production study on implicit verb causality", Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen University, February 9-11, 2012 (with Oliver Bott)

2011

• "Abductive inferences in explanatory discourse: an eye tracking study", 3rd Workshop on Semantic Processing, Logic and Cognition, Tübingen University, July 15-16, 2012 (with Oliver Bott)
• "Implicit causality bias across languages: verb semantics and causal explanation", Discourse Representation, Comprehension and Production in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, June 6-8, 2011 (with Oliver Bott).
• "Abductive inferences in discourse: an eyetracking study of the processing of complex causes", 4th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2-4, 2011 (with Oliver Bott).