Semantics and pragmatics

• PS Structure and Meaning
• HS(+Ü) Structural Differences in German and English
• VL Introduction to English linguistics (with Andreas Kehl & Thanh Lan Truong)
• OS New Research in Semantics
• Colloquium for Candidates in Semantics

• Frana, I., & Menéndez-Benito, P. (to appear). The Italian conditional: Beyond X-marking. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., Menéndez Benito, P., & Rubinstein, A. (2024). Eventive modal projection: The case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses. Natural Language Semantics, 32, 135-176. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09218-9. Link

• Frana, I., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2023). The evidential future in Italian. Natural Language Semantics, 31, 139-178. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., Menéndez Benito, P., & Rubinstein, A. (2022). Event-dependent modal projection: The case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses. In B. Pratley, Ö. Bakay & E. Neu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Vol.1 (pp. 15-28). Amherst: GLSA. 

• Bhatt, R., Frana, I. & Menéndez-Benito, P.  eds. (2020). Making worlds accessible: Essays in honor of Angelika Kratzer. Angelika Kratzer Festschrift.  Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2020). Free choice items and modal indefinites. In D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann & T. E. Zimmermann (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118788516.sem004. Link

• Frana, I., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2019). Evidence and bias: The case of the evidential future in Italian. In K. Blake, F. Davis, K. Lamp & J. Rhyne (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (pp. 727-747). Los Angeles: University of California.

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2017). Projecting possibilities in the nominal domain: Spanish uno cualquiera. Journal of Semantics, 35(1), 1-41. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffx011. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2017) Epistemic indefinites: On the content and distribution of the epistemic component. In A. Arregui, A. Salanova and M.L. Rivero (Eds.), Modality across Syntactic Categories, Oxford University Press.  

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2016). Modal selectivity in the nominal domain: Spanish uno cualquiera. In C. Hammerly & B. Prickett (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) (pp. 1-10). Amherst: GLSA. 

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2015). Epistemic Indefinites: An overview. In L. Alonso-Ovalle and P. Menéndez-Benito (eds.), Epistemic Indefinites (pp. 1-27). Oxford University Press.

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P., eds (2015).  Epistemic indefinites: Exploring modality beyond the nominal domain.  Oxford University Press.

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Indefinites, dependent plurality and the viability requirement on scalar alternatives. Journal of Semantics, 30(1), 65-102. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffr013. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Epistemic indefinites: Are we ignorant about ignorance? In M. Aloni, M. Franke & F. Roelofsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium (pp. 35-42). Amsterdam: ILLC. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Modal determiners and alternatives: Quantity and ignorance effects. In T. Snider (Ed.), Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (pp. 570-586). Ithaca: Cornell University. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Plural epistemic indefinites. In S. Kan, C. Moore-Cantwell & R. Staubs (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) (pp. 17-30). Amherst: GLSA.

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P (2013). Exceptional scope: The case of Spanish. In Stefan Hinterwimmer and Cornelia Ebert (eds.), Different kinds of specificity across languages (Dordrecht: Springer (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy)

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Random choice modality: Spanish uno cualquiera. In E. Chemla, V. Homer & G. Winterstein (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17 (pp. 27-43). Paris: ENS. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). Two views on epistemic indefinites. Language and Linguistics Compass, 17(2), 105-122. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12009. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P.  (2013). A note on the derivation of the epistemic effect as an implicature. In A. Falaus (ed.), Alternatives in semantics (pp. 36-49). Palgrave studies on Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave MacMillan

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2013). On dispositional sentences. In A. Mari, C. Beyssade & F. del Prete (Eds.), Genericity (pp. 276-292). Oxford: OUP. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0010. Linkt

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2011). Domain restrictions, modal implicatures and plurality: Spanish algunos. Journal of Semantics, 28(2), 211-240. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffq016. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2010). Modal indefinites. Natural Language Semantics, 18(1), 1-31. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-009-9048-4. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2011). Expressing indifference: Spanish un NP cualquiera. In N. Ashton, A. Chereches & D. Lutz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (pp. 313-332). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Link

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P., & Schwarz, F. (2011). Maximize presupposition and two types of definite competitors. In S. Lima, K. Mullin & B. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), Vol. 1 (pp. 29-40). Amherst: GLSA.

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2010). On universal free choice items. Natural Language Semantics, 18(1), 33-64. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-009-9050-x

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2008). Minimal domain widening. In Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (eds.), Proceedings of the 27^th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 36-44), Somerville, MA

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2009). Universal free choice Items in Greek and Spanish. In C. Halpert, Hartman, J. & Hill, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop in Greek syntax and semantics at MIT (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 57) (pp. 377-391)

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2006). Exclusive choices. In C. Davis, A. R. Deal & Y. Zabbal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) (pp. 467-480). Amherst: GLSA.

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2005). The Grammar of choice, Ph.D. dissertation, University of      Massachusetts Amherst. 

• Anderssen, J., Menéndez-Benito, P. &  Werle, A., eds. (2003). SULA 2. The Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA. 

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2003). Some epistemic indefinites. In M. Kadowaki and S. Kawahara (eds.), Proceedings of the 33^rd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (pp. 1-12), University of Massachusetts, Amherst: GLSA 

• Alonso-Ovalle, L., & Menéndez Benito, P. (2002). Two types of weak quantifiers:   Evidence from Spanish. Proceedings of the 1st North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (pp. 11-19). Stanford University

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2003). Quantification and syntactic ambiguity: the case of every. In L. Alonso-Ovalle (ed.), On semantic processing: UMOP 27 (pp. 138-166),UMass Amherst: GLSA.

• Menéndez Benito, P. (2002). Aspect and adverbial quantification in Spanish. In M. Hirotani (ed.), Proceedings of the 32^nd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (pp. 365-382), UMass Amherst: GLSA