A note on what's in a name: Publications should be referred to by the name under which they were published. Regarding the older publications, I'm always grateful for pointers that mention the new name in addition (e.g. `as Kaufmann claimed/argued/etc. in Schwager YEAR') to help minimize confusion (space permitting, of course).
I am interested in just about any area of formal semantics, as well as its interfaces to syntax, pragmatics, and philosophy. I am working, or have worked, on the following topics in particular:
Languages I have been studying in some detail regarding one or more of these phenomena (or just for the fun of it) include my native German as well as English, Italian, Japanese, Tagalog, Hungarian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
Together with Stefan Kaufmann, I have been awarded NSF
grant #2116972, "Research on conditional and modal language".
Together with Kavya Krishnan (Cognitive Science Major), I was awarded a SHARE undergrad research grant "How to reason in Nepali",
to
investigate conditionals in Nepali (spring semester 2022).
Magdalena Kaufmann (2012)
Interpreting Imperatives
. Springer. (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 88).
(Revised version of doctoral dissertation, submitted and defended 2006 under the name of Magdalena Schwager, University of Frankfurt).
As Magdalena Kaufmann:
(in prep.) "Conditional conjunctions and other implicit
conditionals". Manuscript, University of Connecticut.
(2022) [with John Whitman] "Conditional conjunctions informed by
Japanese and Korean". In: Natural Language Conditionals
and Conditional Reasoning (Special issue of Linguistics
Vanguard, issue editor Mingya Liu.) De Gruyter Mouton.
(2021) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Iffy Endorsements". Journal of
Semantics. ffab017, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffab017
(2021) "Imperatives". In Matthewson, Lisa, Meier, Cecile,
Rullmann, Hotze and Ede Zimmermann (eds.) Semantics Companion.
prefinal version
(2020) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Talking about sources". In Mariam
Asatryan, Yixiao Song and Ayana Whitmal (eds.) Proceedings
of NELS 50. pp. 77-90. (prefinal)
(2020) "On the performance of modal objects". Theoretical
Linguistics, commentary on Friederike Moltmann `Object-based
truthmaker semantics'. (Links to target and commenatries)
(2020) [with Sanae Tamura] "Possibility and necessity: deontic and epistemic."
In Takubo, Yukinori and
Wesley Jacobsen. Handbook of Japanese Semantics and
Pragmatics (Mouton Handbooks on Japanese Language and
Linguistics). (prefinal version)
(2019) "Who controls who (or what)". In: Proceedings of SALT 29. pdf
(2019) [with Adrian Stegovec] "Being relatively imperative in
Slovenian". In: M.Teresa Espinal, Elena Castroviejo, Manuel
Leonetti, Louise McNally, and Cristina Real-Puigdollers (eds.) Proceeedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23. pdf
(2019) "Fine-tuning natural language imperatives" Journal of
Logic and Computation. (First published online, June 18, 2016,
doi:10.1093/logcom/exw009)
(2018) "What `may' and `must' may be in Japanese". In Funakoshi,
Kenshi, Kawahara, Shigeto and Chris Tancredi (eds.) Japanese/Korean
Linguistics 24. CSLI.
(2017) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Stativity and progressive: The case of Japanese
tokoro-da" Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. [preprint]
(2016) "Free choice as a form of dependence"
Natural Language Semantics 24:3; pp. 247-290.
(2016) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Mood and Modality."
In Nuyts, Jan and Johan van der Auwera. Handbook. Berlin:
de Gruyter.
(2015) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Conditionals and Modality"
In Fox, Chris and Lappin, Shalom Semantics Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell.
(2015) [with Adrian Stegovec] "Slovenian imperatives: You can't always embed what you want!"In:
Proceedings of SuB 19.
(2015) [with Ting Xu] "Almost or almost not? The interaction between
chayidian `almost' and negation in Mandarin Chinese"
In:
Proceedings of CLS 49.
(2013) [with Claudia Poschmann]
"Embedded Imperatives and Echo-Questions." Language 89:3, pp. 619-637.
(2013) [with Fabrizio Cariani and Stefan Kaufmann] "Deliberative Modality under Epistemic
Uncertainty". Linguistics and Philosophy.
(2013) "Satztyp und Semantik."
In Altmann, Hans, Meibauer,
Jörg, and Markus Steinbach. Handbuch Satztypen. Berlin:
de Gruyter.
(2012) [with Stefan Kaufmann] Epistemic particles and
performativity. In: Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic
Theory (SALT) 22. pp. 208--225.
As Magdalena Schwager:
(2011)
"Imperatives and tense." In Musan, Renate and Monika Rathert. Tense
Across Languages. Niemeyer. pp. 37--58.
(2011)
Speaking of qualities. In: Proceedings of
SALT 19. CLC Publications. pp. 395--412. (bib)
(2011) [with Stefan Kaufmann] A Unified Analysis of
Conditional Imperatives. In: Proceedings of SALT 19. CLC
Publications. pp. 239-256. (bib)
(2010)
"Modality and speech acts: troubled by German ruhig" In
Aloni, Maria and Schulz, Katrin. Proceedings of the 17th
Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: ILLC.
(2010) "On what has been said in Tagalog: Reportative 'daw'". In: Sauerland, Dechaine, Schenner and Peterson, "Proceedings of the Workshop 'Evidentiality' at GLOW 2008." UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
(2009) [with Elena Castroviejo-Miro] "Amazing DPs" in: Proceedings of SALT 18. CLC Publications.
(2009) What is amazement all about? In: Proceedings of SuB 13. Hg. von Arndt Riester. Stuttgart: OPUS.
(2008) "Keeping Prices Low: an Answer to a Concealed Question" in: "Proceedings of SuB 12" Hg. von Atle Grønn. Oslo: ILOS.
(2007) "Bodyguards under Cover" in: "Proceedings of SALT 17." In Masayuki Gibson et al., CLC Publications.
(2007) "Conditionalized Imperatives" in: "Proceedings of SALT 16." In Christopher Tancredi et al., CLC Publications.
(2005) "Exhaustive Imperatives" in: Proceedings of the 15th Amsterdam
Colloquium, December 19-21, 2005. In Paul Dekker and Michael Franke. Paper, Handout
(2005) "Permitting Permissions" in: Proceedings of
the Tenth ESSLLI Student Session. In Judit Gervain. paper (leicht revidiert), handout
(2004) "Negating and Conjoining Imperatives" in: Proceedings of Console XII (2003). In Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente und Mark de Vos. Onlinepublikation
(2003) "Temporal Anchoring of Habituals" in: Proceedings of Console XI (2002). In Marjo von Koppen, Joanna Sio und Mark de Vos. Onlinepublikation
(2002) "Temporale Verankerung habitueller Sätze"
Magisterarbeit Universität Wien (Betreuer Martin
Prinzhorn und Arnim von Stechow) manuscript (pdf, 867KB)
(1999) "Development of the German Future Periphrasis" In: Wiener
Linguistische Gazette.
As Magdalena Kaufmann:
(2023) "Complex events in conditional conjunctions". Keynote
presentation at METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal
Reasoning. Gökova, Turkey. March 22-23.
(2022) "How to be impossible or remote". MIT Linguistics Colloquium,
October 14.
(2022) Conjoining(,) conditionals and coherence relations. Talk at Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Dubrovnik,
September 6-10.
(2022) A compositional take on directive
microvariation. (With a commentary by Daniel Harris)
SPAGAD lecture
series at ZAS, July 1. Slides
(2022) Practically out of control. CUNY colloquium, April 7. Slides
(2022) Commentary on Paul Portner `Speaking Frankly'.
SPAGAD lecture
series at ZAS, February 18.
(2022) Tracking presumed control. Invited talk at
Workshop Agency
and Intentionality 2, January 12-14. Slides
(2021) Topics in conjunctions are conditional. DIP colloquium, ILLC
Amsterdam, December 17. Slides
(2021) Obviating differences. Invited talk at Terraling Workshop, October 24.
(2021) [with Ivana Jovović and Neda Todorović ],
"Obviate me (not): Obviation effects in Serbian main and complement
clauses". Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 30, MIT, May
13-16. Handout
(2021) [with John Whitman] "Conditional conjunctions
informed by Japanese and Korean". Presentation at 43rd Annual
Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), AG9: The
semantics and pragmatics of conditional connectives Slides
(2020) "A semantic-pragmatic account of generalized subject
obviation".
Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, October 8.
(2020) "Imperative Perspectives". Philang Reading Group, University of
Vienna, June 17. Slides
(2020) "A semantic-pragmatic account of generalized subject
obviation". LinG Colloquium Series, Georg-August Universität
Göttingen, May 20. Slides
(2020) [with Ivana Jovović and Neda Todorović ] "What makes DA modal", Presentation at
Distanzworkshop auf der Burg, Thomasberg, Austria.
(2019) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Iffy Endorsements". Philosophy in
Linguistics and Linguistics in Philosophy (PhLiP) 6, Tarrytown, NY,
November 14-17. Slides
(2019) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Talking about Sources". NELS 50, MIT,
October 24-26. Handout
(2019) "Iffy Endorsements" (joint work with Stefan Kaufmann). NYU
Linguistics Colloquium, September 26.
(2019) "Who controls who (or what) - evidence from embedded
imperatives and other directives". Invited talk at SALT 29, UCLA, May
17-19. Slides, Paper
(2019) "Conditional conjunctions and juxtapositions". Frege/Semantics
Workshop, UC Irvine, March 1-2.
(2018) "Topics in Conditional Conjunctions". Invited talk at NELS
49, Cornell University, October 5-7. Slides
(2018) "Topics in Conditional Conjunctions". Talk at Nagoya Semantics
Circle, September 23.
(2018) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Iffy Endorsements". Talk at NINJAL,
Tokyo, Japan, September 21.
(2018) "Topics in Conditional Conjunctions". Colloquium at NINJAL,
Tokyo, Japan, September 18.
(2018) "Stay modal and we'll still have a story". University of
Vienna, July 13.
(2018) Stay strong and we'll still have a story. Workshop
Non Canonical Imperatives, Berlin, May 25-26.
(2017) "Japanese modals and other evaluations"Seminar Language of Desire, MIT, November.
(2017) "Iffy Endorsements", Workshop Questioning Speech Acts, University of
Konstanz, September. [Joint work with Stefan Kaufmann.]Slides
(2017) [with Adrian Stegovec] "Imperatives - relatively Slovenian",
Workshop Relative Clauses, Frankfurt University, May.
(2017) "Deontic logic for non-logical conditionals", Semantics/Pragmatics Workshop, Rutgers University, May.
(2016) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Stativity and progessive: the case of Japanese `tokoro da'",
Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh, September.
(2016) "What `may' and `must' may be in Japanese", Keynote talk at 24th
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, NINJAL, Tokio, October.
(2016) [with S. Kaufmann] "Stativity and Progressive The case of Japanese tokoro da",
Sinn und Bedeutung 21, September.
(2016) "Embedded imperatives", Workshop Imperatives: Worlds and
Beyond. Hamburg University, June.
(2016) "Models for natural language meaning", Keynote talk at the
(2016) "2016 Speech acts: the view from linguistics", NYU Philosophy of Language Colloquium,
NYU, May.
(2016) "Free choice and other reasons for disjunctions", Harvard
Linguistics Colloquium Circle, February 12.
(2016) "Discourse particle `ruhig': discourse effects, desires, and modality", 3rd Workshop on the Semantics
of Discourse Particles in East and Southeast Asian Languages, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies, January 9-10.
(2016) "Japanese modality: the view from formal semantics", Ritsumeikan University, December 17.
(2015) "Presupposing - expressive - speech acts", CREST international
workshop on formal and computational semantics, Kyoto University,
Nov 21.
(2015) "It depends on `It depends on'", Invited talk at LENLS 12, Nov 15-17.
(2015) "Imperatives embedded in discourse", Kyoto Workshop on Linguistics and Philosophy:
Evidence and Inference: the foundation of linguistics and philosophy, Kyoto University, Oct 31 - Nov 1.
(2015) "Imperative semantics", Tutorial for ILCAA Joint Research Project
Semantics of Discourse Particles in East and Southeast Asian
Languages, Meeting 2, TUFS University, Tokyo, Oct 17-18.
(2015) "Locating events in time and across worlds: the case of
tokoro da", Talk at Meikai University, Tokyo, Sep 14.
(2015) "Talk about embedding", Workshop Speech Acts, ZAS Berlin, June
11-13.
(2015) "Embedded imperatives across languages", Colloquium, UMass,
April 21.
(2015) "Free choice as a form of dependence", Brown bag talk, Brown
University, April 8.
(2014) "Embedded imperatives across languages: Evidence against
monoliths", Colloquium, Rutgers University, November 21.
(2014) "Look for a sweater or find the missing screw, Mr. X!",
Carpentry: Colloquium in Honor of Thomas Ede Zimmermann's 60th
Birthday, Frankfurt University, September 29.
(2014) "Fine-tuning natural language imperatives: between logic and
linguistics",
Plenary talk at DEON 2014,
Universiteit Gent, July 12-15. Slides
(2014) "Embedded imperatives across languages:
Too rare to expect, too frequent to ban", Colloquium, Department of
Linguistics, SUNY Stony Brook, April 4. Handout
(2013) "Imperatives, disjunction, free choice, and what it all depends
on." Colloquium, Cornell University, November 7.
(2013) "Discourse particle ruhig: discourse effects, desires,
and modality". 3rd Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philsophy
Modal Talk and Reasoning, November 9-10.
(2013) "Embedded Imperatives across Languages: too rare to expect, too
frequent to ban". Mini-Workshop on Syntax and Semantics:
Imperatives, Embeddability, and Politeness, Yale University, October 17.
(2013) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Information dependence in
conditionalized prioritizing modality". Workshop Modality as a
Window on Cognition, ICL19, Geneva, July 23.
(2013) [with Yukinori Takubo and Stefan Kaufmann] "The Japanese Marker
'tokoro da': A case study in time and modality". Workshop Modality as a
Window on Cognition, ICL19, Geneva, July 22.
(2013) "Imperatives and (Im)perfect Information". Invited Talk,
Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, May 27.
(2013) "Imperatives and (Im)perfect Information". Invited Talk,
Frankfurt University, May 23.
(2012) "The modal operator theory of imperatives: Revisiting assets
and drawbacks". Invited Talk, MIT, Novemeber 26.
(2012) "Questioning Imperatives". Workshop 'Alternatives and Modality', Gö:ttingen University, July 19.
(2012) "Imperatives and Imperfect Information". Workshop 'Relating
Particles to Evidence and Inference', Göttingen University, July 13-14.
(2012) "Questioning Imperatives". Invited Talk, University of Connecticut, February 3.
(2011) "Particles and Performativity". Workshop Particles and Speech
Acts, Hongkong City University, October 14.
As Magdalena Schwager:
(2011) "Imperatives between Form and Function". Phling-Talk,
Northwestern University (February).
(2010) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Respecting Rights". Szklarska Poreba
Workshop, Szklarska Poreba (PL) (March).
(2010) [with Stefan Kaufmann] "Awareness, Information, and
Action". Particle Workshop, University of Göttingen (March).
(2010) "Imperatives as Moody Modals". University of Chicago
(February).
(2009) "Modality and speech acts: troubled by German `ruhig'." Amsterdam Colloquium 9, University of Amsterdam (December).
(2009) "Modality and speech acts: troubled by German modal particle `ruhig'." LENLS, Tokyo (November).
(2009) "Imperatives as Moody Modals". Workshop on Clause Types, University of Frankfurt (June).
(2009) [with Eric McCready] "Intensifiers". Workshop Expressive Meaning, DGfS Osnabrück (March).
(2008) [with Claudia Poschmann] "(Un)Quoted Imperatives", Talk at ICQM2, Berlin, October 16-18. handout
(2007) "Keeping Prices Low", Talk at SuB 12, Oslo, September 20-22. abstract, handout
(2007) "Bodyguards under cover: The status of individual concepts", Talk at SALT XVII, UConn, May 10-13. handout, presentation
(2007) "(Non-)Functional Concepts: Definite Articles in Bavarian", Talk at the 8th Szklarska Poreba Workshop. (presentation)
(2007) "Definitheitsmarkierer im Bayrischen", Talk at Workshop "Definiteness", University of Stuttgart, January 26.
(2007) "Change under cover: The status of individual concepts", Talk at Stuttgart University, January 25.
(2006) "What mayors, strikers and bodyguards might tell us about individual concepts", DIP-talk, ILLC Amsterdam, December 15.
(2006) "The Topic Has Changed: On Functional Concepts", Semantiknetzwerk VI, Barcelona, September 19-20.
(2006) "Living on the Addressee", Workshop "How to refer to one's own words" in honour of Anita Mittwoch, Berlin, July 11-15.
(2005) "Conditionalized Imperatives",
accepted for Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique a Paris, 30.9.-1.10.2005.
(2004) "Right-Node Raising und Boolsche Algebra",
Österreichische Linguisitiktagung, November 2004.
(2004) [mit Hans-Martin Gärtner] "Pseudo-Coordination meets the type-force square",
Workshop Mood and (In-)Subordination, 5.-7. 11. 2004.
(2004) "Don't be late or you'll miss the first slot",
NASSLLI 2004 Student Session, UCLA, 21.6.2004.Handout (leicht revidiert)
(2004) "Satztyp und oder - Zu nicht-kanonischen Imperativen",
Linguistischer Arbeitskreis des IDSL Universität Köln, 9.6.2004 [eingeladener Gastvortrag]
(2004) "Wie pseudo sind Pseudo-Imperative",
GGS Mannheim 21.-23.5.2004.
(2004) "Conditional Imperatives",
Semantikzirkel ZAS, Berlin 23.2. 2004 [eingeladener Gastvortrag]
(2003) "Warum man Imperative (nicht) einbetten kann",
Klausurtagung GK Satzarten der Universität Frankfurt/ZAS Berlin,
7.11.2003. handout
(2003) "Fragt und kritisiert nicht!",
GGS Köln, 29.5. - 1.6. 2003
(2002) "Habitualität und Ereignisquantifikation",
Österreichische Linguistiktagung (Innsbruck, 7.-8. 12. 2002)
(2002) "Habituelle Sätze und Ereignisqunatifikation - Evidenz von temporaler Verankerung",
GGS Frankfurt, 10.-12. 5. 2002.
(2004) "Why Imperatives can(not) embed",
Poster bei Georgetown University Round Table, Washington
27.-29.3.2004. poster
Noun phrases in intensional
contexts, Free-Floater Group, University of Göttingen.
Relativsätze und
Intensionalität (Relative Clauses and Intensionality), DFG
Forschergruppe 1783 Relativsätze, University of
Göttingen/Frankfurt University.
CRC `Text
Structures', University of Göttingen.
Speech Acts and
Particles, DAAD-Cooperation HongKong-Germany [with Yurie Hara,
City University of Hong Kong].