Prof. Keith Allan - Works in Press and in Progress
Books
2010 The English Language and Linguistics Companion (principal author and editor with Julie Bradshaw) London: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.macmillanenglish.com/Course.aspx?id=42464) http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/PalgraveContents.pdf [28Kb]
2010 Co-editor with Kasia Jaszczolt Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Approx. 650 pages. (Contract signed May 12, 2009) http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/ContentsCHP.pdf [12Kb]
2011 Editor Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Approx.700 pages. (Contract signed June 17, 2009) http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/ContentsOHHL.pdf [214Kb]
2011 Co-editor with Kasia Jaszczolt Salient Meanings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Papers
Introduction to the Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics (ed. by Keith Allan, Oxford: Elsevier 2009) http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/CESIntro.pdf [1549Kb]
Semantics and pragmatics. In Cambridge History of Linguistics, ed. by Linda R. Waugh, John Joseph and Monique Monville-Burston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Contract signed September 2008) http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/SemPragCHL.pdf [410Kb]
Referring as a pragmatic act. Accepted for publication (October 2008) in a special issue on pragmemes of the Journal of Pragmatics. http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/RefAsPragmeme.pdf [463Kb]
“The best architect designed this church”: definite descriptions in Default Semantics. http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/BestArchitect.pdf [433Kb]
The pragmatic act of referring to ‘what counts as the referent’ http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/Referring.pdf [312Kb]
Graded salience: probabilistic meanings in the lexicon. http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/GradedSalience.pdf [223Kb]
Taboos and quirks of human behaviour, paper delivered to a Conference at the University of Cologne 'Perception of the Invisible - Wahrnehmung des Unsichtbaren' in November 2007 (see http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/forschung/ressourcen/invisible/index.html). http://users.monash.edu.au/~kallan/papers/Taboos and quirks.pdf