Publications by Topic

Polysemy and Copredication

Sutton, P. R. 2026. Gradable abstract nouns and eventualities. In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30. pp. 1056-1073 <Open access link> <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. 2024. Individuation criteria and copredication: modification in context. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28. <Proceedings link> <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. 2024. Types and Type Theories in Natural Language Analysis. Annu. Rev. Linguist. 2024. 10:5.1–5.20. <publisher link> <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. 2022. Restrictions on copredication: a situation theoretic approach. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32. <pdf> <bibtex>

Countability

Sutton, P. R. and H. Filip. 2026, in press. Objects and the grammar of countability. Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics series, OUP. Publisher website <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. and H. Filip. 2025. Nomen. Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Publisher website <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. and H. Filip. 2024. Making a statement: eventuality denoting nominals. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, pp 371–377. <Proceedings link> <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R. 2024. The problem of the many: a view from the semantics of numerals and countability. Linguistics and Philosophy 47: 993-1026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09405-1. <Publisher Link (open access)> <bibtex>
Sutton, P. R., H. Filip, T. Snider, and M. Windhearn. 2022. Metaphorical measure expressions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26.<pdf>
K. Erbach, P.R. Sutton, H. Filip, and K. Byrdeck. "Object Mass Nouns as Arbiter for the Mass/Count Category". 2021. In: J. Pelletier, T. Kiss, and H. Husić (eds.) The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction. CUP. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2021. "Container, Portion and Measure Interpretations of Pseudo- Partitive Constructions". In: J. Pelletier, T. Kiss, and H. Husic (eds.) The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction. CUP. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2021. "The count/mass distinction for granular nouns". In: H. Filip (ed.) Countability in Natural Language. CUP. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton and C-R Little. 2020,. The Finnish partitive in counting and measuring constructions. In Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller, and Juliane Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. <pdf>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2020. Informational Object Nouns and the mass/count distinction. In Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller, and Juliane Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. <publisher link>
K. Erbach, P.R. Sutton, and H. Filip. Bare nouns and the Hungarian mass/count distinction. In: A. Silva, S. Staton, P. Sutton, C. Umbach (eds.), Language, Logic, and Computation. TbiLLC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11456. pp. 86-107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2019. Singular/Plural contrasts: The case of Informational Object Nouns. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp 367–376. <Proceedings link>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2018. Restrictions on Subkind Coercion in Object Mass Nouns. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21: 1195-1213, University of Edinburgh. <semantics archive>
K. Erbach, P. R. Sutton, H. Filip, & K. Byrdeck. 2017. Object Mass Nouns in Japanese. In: A. Cremers, T. van Gessel, & F. Roelofsen eds. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium. pp. 235-244 <semantics archive>
H. Filip & P. Sutton. 2017. Singular Count NPs in Measure Constructions. In: D. Burgdorf, J. Collard, S. Maspong & B Stefánsddóttir, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 27, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. pp. 340-357. <open access>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2017. A probabilistic, mereological account of the mass/count distinction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10148. Springer. <pre-final> <publisher link (paywall)>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2017. Probabilistic mereological type theory and the mass/count distinction. Journal of Language Modelling 5(2):303-356 <publisher link (open access)>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2016. Countability: Individuation and Context. Proceedings of Formal Grammar 21. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2016. Counting in context. In Moroney, Mary, Little, Carol-Rose, Collard, Jacob & Burgdorf, Dan (Eds.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26, 350-370. LSA and CLC Publications. <pdf>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2016. Mass/count variation, a mereological, two-dimensional semantics, in Rothstein, S. & J Šķilters (Eds.), The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 11. New Prarie Press. <pdf>
P. R. Sutton and H. Filip. 2016. Vagueness, overlap, and countability. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tübingen. pp. 730-747. <semantics archive>

Vagueness

Sutton, P. R. 2023. The origins of vagueness. In: Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, Aleksandre Maskharashvili (eds.), Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory. CSLI. <publisher link>
H. Burnett and P. R. Sutton. 2021. "Vagueness and natural language semantics". In D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullman and T.E. Zimmermann. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. <publisher link>
P. R. Sutton. 2018. Probabilistic Approaches to Vagueness and the Principle of Tolerance. Erkenntnis 83(4): 711-740
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P. R. Sutton. 2015. Towards a Probabilistic Semantics for Vague Adjectives. In: Schmitz, Hans-Christian and Zeevat, Henk (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Mind, Springer. <pre-final><publisher link>
P. R. Sutton. 2013. Vagueness, Communication and Semantic Information, PhD Thesis, King's College London.

Other

Bolea, M., McNally, L., Sutton, P.R. 2026. Modification Strategies for Discriminating Among Referents in the Presence of Distractors: An Analysis of Large-Scale Production Data. In: Hogeweg, L., Jalali, R., Sedlár, I., Schwarz, L. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15661. Springer, Cham. Publisher Link
Rainer Osswald, Christian Retoré & Peter Sutton (eds.). 2019. Proceedings of the IWCS 2019 Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures
A. Schuster, Strößner, C. Sutton, P.R., and Zeevat, H. 2020. Stochastic frames. In: Christine Howes, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Adam Ek, Vidya Somashekarappa (eds.) Proceedings of Probability and Meaning in the ACL Anthology, 2020.
Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton & Carla Umbach (eds.). 2019. Language, Logic, and Computation. 12th International Tbilisi Symposium, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. <publisher link>