Recent Presentations

• Maria Aloni Modal inferences in marked indefinites MIT linguistics colloquium, 18 November 2011
• Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen. Indefinites in comparatives SALT 21, 20 May 2011, Rutgers University
• Maria Aloni (joint work with Floris Roelofsen). On concealed questions ILLC New Year's Colloquium, 28 January 2011, University of Amsterdam, and Wh(-)inter symposium, 11 February 2011, University of Groningen
• Maria Aloni and Angelika Port. Epistemic indefinites crosslinguistically NELS, Philadelphia, 22 October 2010
• Ana Aguilar Guevara, Maria Aloni, Angelika Port, Radek Simik, Machteld de Vos and Hedde Zeijlstra. Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study Workshop on Beyond Semantics - Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena (DGfS), Goettingen, 23-25 February 2011

Books

• Questions in Dynamic Semantics(editor, with Paul Dekker and Alaistair Butler) CRiSPI series, Elsevier, 2007.
• Logic, Language and Meaning (editor, with H. Bastiaanse, T. de Jager and K. Schulz) LNAI 6042, Springer, 2010.

Articles

• Maria Aloni On epistemic indefinites: a note on emphatic free choice uses Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2011
• Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen. Indefinites in comparatives Proceedings of SALT 21, 2011
• Maria Aloni and Ivano Ciardelli. A semantics for imperatives Manuscript, University of Amsterdam
• Maria Aloni and Bruno Jacinto. Knowing who: How perspectives and context interact Manuscript, University of Amsterdam
• Maria Aloni and Angelika Port. Epistemic indefinites crosslinguistically NELS, 2010
• Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen. Resolving Concealed Questions Forthcoming in Linguistics and Philosophy
• Maria Aloni, Paul Egre and Tikitu de Jager. Knowing whether A or B. Forthcoming in Synthese [PDF]
• Ana Aguilar Guevara, Maria Aloni, Angelika Port, Radek Simik, Machteld de Vos and Hedde Zeijlstra. Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study In the proceedings of Beyond Semantics - Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena as a special issue of BLA (Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten). A longer version of this article is downloadable here
• Maria Aloni and Paul Egre. Alternative Questions and Knowledge Attributions. In The Philosophical Quarterly , 2010, vol. 60 Issue 238, pp. 1--27.
• Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni. Perspectives on Concealed Questions. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory [SALT-08], Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 2008. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Concealed questions under cover. In Franck Lihoreau (ed.), Knowledge and Questions. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 77, 2008, pp. 191--216. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Free choice and exhaustification: an account of subtrigging effects. In Estela Puig-Waldmueller (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, May 2007. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Free Choice, Modals and Imperatives. Natural Language Semantics, 2007, vol. 15, pp. 65--94.
• Maria Aloni. Expressing ignorance or indifference. Modal implicatures in BiOT. In Balder ten Cate and Henk Zeevat (eds.) TbiLLC 2005 LNAI 4363, pp. 1--20, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. [PDF]
• Paul Dekker, Maria Aloni and Alaistair Butler. Introduction. In Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker and Alaistair Butler, editors, Questions in Dynamic Semantics CRiSPI series, Elsevier, 2007.
• Maria Aloni, Alastair Butler and Darrin Hindsill. Nuclear Accent in Bidirectional Optimality Theory. In M. Aloni, A. Butler and P. Dekker, editors, Questions in Dynamic Semantics, CRiSPI series, Elsevier, 2007. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni, David Beaver, Brady Clark and Robert van Rooij. The dynamics of topics and focus. In M. Aloni, A. Butler and P. Dekker, editors, Questions in Dynamic Semantics, CRiSPI series, Elsevier, 2007. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni and Robert van Rooij. Free Choice Items and Alternatives. In G. Bouma, I. Kraemer, and J. Zwarts, (eds) Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Edita KNAW. 2007 [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. A Formal Treatment of the Pragmatics of Questions and Attitudes. Linguistics and Philosophy, 2005, vol. 28, nr. 5, pp. 505--539.
• Maria Aloni. Individual Concepts in Modal Predicate Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2005, vol. 34, nr. 1, pp. 1-64.
• Maria Aloni. Utility and implicatures of imperatives. In Proceedings of DIALOR'05, 2005. Loria, Nancy, France. [PDF][revised version]
• Maria Aloni. On choice-offering imperatives. In Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy editors, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 2003. ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [PDF][revised version]
• Maria Aloni. Free Choice in Modal Contexts. In M. Weisgerber (ed.)Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 7, 2002. University of Konstanz. [PDF][revised version]
• Maria Aloni and Robert van Rooy. The Dynamics of Questions and Focus. In B. Jackson, editor, Proceedings of SALT 12, 2002. Cornell University, CLC Publications. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Questions under Cover. In D. Barker-Plummer, David Beaver, Johan van Benthem, and Patrick Scotto de Luzio, editors, Words, Proofs, and Diagrams, CSLI, Stanford, CA, 2002 [PS], [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Pragmatics for Propositional Attitudes. In Robert van Rooy and Martin Stokhof editors, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 2001. ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [PDF]
• Maria Aloni and Robert van Rooy. Topical Domain Restrictions. In D. de Jong and H. Zeevat and M. Nilsenova, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th International Symposium on Language Logic and Computation, 2001, ILLC and CLLS publications.
• Maria Aloni. Optimization games: An application. In Proceedings of TARK '01, University of Siena, 2001. [PS], [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Conceptual Covers in Dynamic Semantics In Lawrence Cavedon, Patrick Blackburn, Nick Braisby, and Atsushi Shimojima, editors, Logic, Language and Computation, Vol. III. CSLI, Stanford, CA, 2000. [PS], [PDF]
• Maria Aloni, David Beaver, and Brady Clark. Focus and Topic Sensitive Operators In Paul Dekker, editor, Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, 1999. ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [PS], [PDF]
• Maria Aloni. Quantification in Dynamic Semantics In Paul Dekker, Martin Stokhof, and Yde Venema, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, 1997. ILLC, University of Amsterdam. [PS], [PDF]

PhD Thesis

• Maria Aloni. Quantification under Conceptual Covers. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2001. [PDF]