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Benbaji-Elhadad
I am a sixth-year PhD student, interested in syntax, semantics-pragmatics and their interfaces. See my work below.
- Benbaji-Elhadad, I. & D. Pesetsky. 2024. Ingredients of Ellipsis: Silent head, silence extended, and the Uniformity of Silence. Manuscript, MIT.
- Benbaji-Elhadad, I. & J. Wehbe. 2024. On the semantics of unit fractions. SuB28: 131-149.
- Benbaji-Elhadad, I. & O. Doron. 2024. How is presupposition accommodation constrained, again? Amsterdam Colloquium 24: 22-28.
- Benbaji-Elhadad, I. 2023. Preliminaries for a substitution of de re. SALT33: 358-378.
- Benbaji-Elhadad, I., O. Doron & A. Hénot-Mortier. 2023. Distinguishing levels of morphological derivation in word-embedding models. NELS53: 63-76.
- Benbaji, I. & O. Doron. 2023. Adversative only is only only. SuB27: 64-80.
- Benbaji, I. 2022. Focus particles in verb-echo answers: An argument for Argument Ellipsis. NELS52: 67-80.
- Benbaji, I., O. Doron & A. Hénot-Mortier. 2022. Word-Embeddings Distinguish Denominal and Root-Derived Verbs in Semitic. E2ECOMPVEC, EPTCS366: 35-49.
- Benbaji, I. 2021. Restricting the Fourth Reading. SALT31: 221-240.
- Benbaji, I., O. Doron & R. Wang. 2021. A New Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition. NELS51: 51-64.
(refereed by abstract)
- 2024. Worlds, times and the fate of Ontological Symmetry. SuB29.
- 2024. Relevance as a dynamic constraint. WCCFL42. With Omri Doron.
- 2024. Specific-opaque readings and the temporal interpretation of noun phrases. WCCFL42, UC Berkeley.
- 2023. A partition-based semantics for unit fractions. SuB28, Ruhr University Bochum. With Jad Wehbe.
- 2023. Is nothing irreplaceable? Towards a substitution theory of de re. SALT33, Yale University.
- 2023. E-extension and the uniformity of silence. NELS53, University of Göttingen, Germany. With David Pesetsky.
- 2023. Distinguishing levels of morphological derivations in word-embedding models. NELS53, University of Göttingen, Germany. With Omri Doron and Adèle Hénot-Mortier.
- 2022. Proper names and the syntax-semantics of coercion. The 3rd Context, Cognition and Communication Conference, University of Warsaw.
- 2022. The logic of Hindi co-compounds. SuB27, Charles University, Prague. With Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Yash Sinha.
- 2022. Adversative only is only only. SuB27, Charles University, Prague. With Omri Doron.
- 2021. A new argument against Verb-Stranding VP-ellipsis. NELS52, Rutgers University.
- 2021. Restricting the Fourth Reading. SALT31, Brown University.
- 2020. A New Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition. NELS51, UQAM. With Omri Doron and Ruoan Wang.
- 2020. Hebrew Reduplication as a Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition. SuB25, UCL & QMUL. With Omri Doron and Ruoan Wang.
- 2018. A Context Sensitive Semantics for Proper Names. Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle, Universite Paris 8/CNRS.
(invited talks)
- 2024. Missing temporariness implicatures and their consequence for the theory of alternatives. Institut Jean Nicod LINGUAE Seminar. Joint work with Zachary Feldcamp.
- 2024. Specific-opaque readings and the temporal interpretation of noun phrases. Tel Aviv University Department of Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Colloquium.
- 2023. Property-coerced names are not metaphors: the case for coercion operators for proper names. Northeastern University Linguistic Speaker Series.