Publications

Alxatib, Sam. (2023). Remarks on exhaustification and embedded free choiceNatural Language Semantics 31:291-314.

Alxatib, Sam. (2021). Remarks on disjunctive focus-associates. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, ed. Patrick Grosz, Luisa Martí, Hazel Pearson, Yasutada Sudo & Sarah Zobel, 37-54. Semantics Archive.

Alxatib, Sam. (2021). The ability root in Palestinian Arabic and its actuality entailment. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39:657-685.

Alxatib, Sam. (2020). Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy. Cham: Springer.

Alxatib, Sam. (2020). Onlyor, and free choice presuppositions. Natural Language Semantics 28:395-429. Preprint.

Alxatib, Sam and Ivana Ðurovic. (2019). Neg-raising and Maximize Presupposition. In Amsterdam Colloquium 22, ed. Julian J. Schlöder, Dean McHugh and Floris Roelofsen, 21-29. Amsterdam: ILLC.

Alxatib, Sam. (2019). Actuality entailments and free choice. Journal of Semantics 36: 701-720.

Alxatib, Sam, and Uli Sauerland. (2019). Vagueness. The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, ed. Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos, 331-353. Oxford University Press.

Alxatib, Sam, and Natasha Ivlieva (2018). Van Benthem’s problem, exhaustification, and distributivity. Sinn und Bedeutung 21, ed. Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde. 1-17. Semantics Archive.

Alxatib, Sam, and Yael Sharvit. (2017). Bound tense in relative clauses: evidence from VP-ellipsisLinguistic Inquiry 48:697-711. Preprint.

Alxatib, Sam (2017). The scalar presupposition of only and only ifAmsterdam Colloquium 21, ed. Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel, and Floris Roelofsen, 96-105. Amsterdam: ILLC.

Alxatib, Sam. (2016). Actuality entailments, negation, and free choice inferencesSemantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, ed. Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf, 451-470. LSA.

Alxatib, Sam. (2016). Actuality entailments in Palestinian Arabic. In the Proceedings of the 46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), ed. Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett, 11-24. Amherst, MA: GLSA, Department of Linguistics, UMass.

Alxatib, Sam. (2014). The comparative as subsethood: how degree-referring expressions fit in. In The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, vol. 1, ed. Luka Crnič and Uli Sauerland, 61-68. MITWPL.

Alxatib, Sam. (2014). Free Choice Disjunctions under only. In the Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), ed. Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer, 15-28. Amherst, MA: GLSA, Department of Linguistics, UMass.

Alxatib, Sam. (2013). ‘Only’ and association with negative antonyms. MIT dissertation. PDF.

Alxatib, Sam, Peter Pagin, and Uli Sauerland. (2013). Acceptable Contradictions: Pragmatics or Semantics? A Reply to Cobreros et alJournal of Philosophical Logic 42:619-634.

Alxatib, Sam. (2012). The stress-epenthesis opacity in Palestinian Arabic. Talk delivered at the 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2012. Handout.

Alxatib, Sam, and Francis Jeffry Pelletier. (2011). The Psychology of Vagueness: Borderline Cases and ContradictionsMind and Language 26:287-326.

Alxatib, Sam, and Francis Jeffry Pelletier. (2011). On the Psychology of Truth-gaps. In Vagueness and Communication, ed. Nouwen, Rick, Uli Sauerland, Hans-Christian Schmitz, and Robert van Rooij, 13-36. Heidelberg: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_2.