Dr. Raj Singh
Dr. Ida Toivonen
Dr. Raj Singh
Papers
Azin, T., Dumitrescu, D., Inkpen, D., & Singh, R. (2025). Let's CONFER: A Dataset for Evaluating Natural Language Inference Models on CONditional InFERence and Presupposition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06133.
Singh, R. (2025). Monotonicity, Substitution Sources, and the Robustness of Disjunct Alternatives. In Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition (pp. 275-305). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Riley, S., Savelson, Z. M., & Singh, R. (2023). Cognitive primitives and Bayesian number word learning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).
Lødrup, H., Singh, R., & Toivonen, I. (2019). Distributive possessors in Swedish and Norwegian: Binding, agreement, and quantification. In Proceedings of the LFG-conference (pp. 170-190).
Xia, A., Barbu, R. M., Van Benthem, K., Di Giovanni, D. A., Toivonen, I., & Singh, R. (2019). Detecting presupposition failure and accommodation with EEG. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 41).
Singh, R. (2020). Matrix and embedded presuppositions. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 1-42.
Singh, R. (2019). Context, content, and the occasional costs of implicature computation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2214.
Singh, R., Wexler, K., Astle-Rahim, A., Kamawar, D., & Fox, D. (2016). Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development. Natural Language Semantics, 24(4), 305-352.
Chemla, E., Cummins, C., & Singh, R. (2017). Training and timing local scalar enrichments under global pragmatic pressures. Journal of Semantics, 34(1), 107-126.
Singh, R., Fedorenko, E., Mahowald, K., & Gibson, E. (2016). Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts. Cognitive Science, 40(3), 607-634.
Singh, R. (2015). Presupposition projection: Global accommodation, local accommodation, and scope ambiguities. Manuscript.
Milačić, D., Singh, R., & Toivonen, I. (2015). On the morphosyntactic representation of dependent quantification: distance distributivity, dependent indefinites, and Skolemization. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (Vol. 19, pp. 431-445).
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2015). Economy of structure and information: Oddness, questions, and answers. In Proceedings of sinn und bedeutung (Vol. 19, pp. 322-339).
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2014). Hurford disjunctions: embedded exhaustification and structural economy. In Proceedings of sinn und bedeutung (Vol. 18, pp. 201-216).
Singh, R. (2014). A Note ON LOCAL ACCOMMODATION⇤. The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, 1.
Chemla, E., & Singh, R. (2014). Remarks on the experimental turn in the study of scalar implicature, Part I. Language and Linguistics Compass, 8(9), 373-386.
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2013). Constraints on the lexicalization of logical operators. Linguistics and Philosophy, 36(1), 1-29.
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2013). A note on presupposition accommodation. Semantics and Pragmatics, 6, 5-1.
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2012). Two restrictions on possible connectives. Theories of Everything In Honor of Ed Keenan, 154-162.
Singh, R. (2011). Maximize Presupposition! and local contexts. Natural Language Semantics, 19(2), 149-168.
Singh, R. (2009). Symmetric and interacting alternatives for implicature and accommodation. Ms MIT.
Singh, R. (2009). 'Maximize Presupposition!'and Informationally Encapsulated Implicatures. In Proceedings of sinn und bedeutung (Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 513-526).
KATZIR, R., & SINGH, R. (2008). A Note ON THE ABSENCE OF XOR IN NATURAL. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 60, 123.
Singh, R. (2008). On the interpretation of disjunction: Asymmetric, incremental, and eager for inconsistency. Linguistics and Philosophy, 31(2), 245-260.
Singh, R. (2007, October). Formal alternatives as a solution to the proviso problem. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory (pp. 264-281).
Manuscripts
Singh, R. (2010). On the Structure Sensitivity of the Alternatives for Accommodation. Unpublished ms. Carlton University.
Singh, R. (2008). VP-deletion, obligatory too, and focus semantics. Unpublished manuscript, MIT, 52.
Singh, R. (2007). Assertability constraints and absurd assertions. Manuscript, MIT.
Singh, R. (2007). Presupposition and selectional restrictions. Manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Handouts
Singh, R. (2010). Presuppositions: Ambiguity, Accommodation and Cancellation.
Singh, R. (2010). Oddness and ignorance inferences. Handout presented at Modularity Reading Group at MIT.
Katzir, R., & Singh, R. (2009). On Some Missing Logical Operators in Natural Language.
Singh, R. (2009). Symmetric and interacting alternatives for implicature and accommodation. Ms MIT.
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