Publications

In preparation

V. Homer, “Ce: Demonstrative and Anti-logophoric”. Abstract and presentation.

V. Homer, “All and Sufficiency Modals”.

Submitted

M. Denić, V. Homer, D. Rothschild and E. Chemla, “The Influence of Polarity Items on Inferential Judgments” (submitted to Cognition; under revision).

2019

V. Homer and R. Bhatt, “Measuring Cardinalities: Evidence from Differential Comparatives in French’, in Interactions of Degree and Quantification, Peter Hallman (ed.) (invited contribution), accepted with revisions. Current version here.

V. Homer, “Actualistic Interpretations in French“, Semantics and Pragmatics, accepted with revisions.

V. Homer and R. Bhatt, “Restructuring and the Scope of Negation in Hindi-Urdu“, Glossa, accepted.

V. Homer. “Domains of Polarity Items”, Journal of Semantics, accepted with minor revisions.
Keywords: Polarity, PPI, NPI, Cyclicity

V. Homer. “Negative Polarity”, in Blackwell Companion to Semantics, Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullman & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), Wiley (forthcoming). Final draft here: Negative polarity

V. Homer. “That’s all“, in Proceedings of WCCFL 36.

V. Homer and R. Bhatt, “Licensing of PPIs Indefinites: Movement or Pseudoscope?“, Natural Language Semantics.

R. Bhatt and V. Homer, “Differentials Crosslinguistically”, in The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times, Daniel Altshuler & Jessica Rett (eds.), pp. 217-238. Cham: Springer.

2018

R. Bhatt and V. Homer, “Differential Comparatives in Hindi-Urdu”, in Trends in Hindi Linguistics, Ghanshyam Sharma & Rajesh Bhatt (eds.), pp. 27-46.

2015

V. Homer, “Neg-raising and Positive Polarity: The View from Modals“, Semantics and Pragmatics.

V. Homer, “Ne… que and Its Challenges”, in Proceedings of WCCFL 32.

2013

V. Homer Epistemic Modals: High ma non troppo Proceedings of NELS 40.

2012

E. Chemla, V. Homer, D. Rothschild. Modularity and intuitions in formal semantics: the case of polarity items. Linguistics and philosophy, Springer.
Keywords: NPI, Scalar implicature, Monotonicity

V. Homer. “As Simple as It Seems“, Proceedings of the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium.
Keywords: PPI, Modal, Movement

2011

V. Homer Actuality Entailments in French: A Case of Aspectual CoercionProceedings of WCCFL 28.

2010

V. Homer Actuality Entailments and Aspectual Coercionms., Dec. 19 2010 (revised and augmented version of the article on Lingbuzz)
Keywords: Actuality entailment, Aspectual coercion, French

2009

V. Homer and T. IshizukaOnly One (s)ase: Looking at Japanese Causatives from a French Perspective Proceedings of CLS 45.

V. Homer. Backward Control in Samoan Proceedings of AFLA 16.

2008

V. Homer. Presuppositions Can Be Disruptors Too: A Case against Strawson-Entailment Proceedings of WCCFL 27.

V. Homer. Disruption of NPI Licensing: The Case of Presuppositions Proceedings of SALT 18.

2006

V. Homer Nested Choice Functions, ms.

V. Homer The Problem of Strong Pronouns in French Possessive Constructions, ms.