To Linguistics Department.
I am a former Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in Linguistics and English Language, now an independent researcher. I have taught and carried out research mainly in pragmatics, semantics and points of contact between the two, notably information-structural phenomena. More generally, much of my work examines the foundations of linguistic theory, especially (i) implications of work on pragmatic theory for both theory and methodology in grammar and semantics, and (ii) possible lessons from (the philosophy of) biology for the foundations of linguistic theory.
BOOK
(2005) Shifting the Focus: From Static Structures to the Dynamics of Interpretation. In the series Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Oxford: Elsevier Science.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
[3 articles currently under review / accepted subject to revisions not shown here.]
(2012) [Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Daniel Wedgwood] Representationalism and Linguistic Knowledge. In: R. Kempson, T. Fernando and N. Asher (eds.), Philosophy of Linguistics, North Holland, Amsterdam, 357-401.
(2011) Dissimilarities in perspective: a reply to Kjøll. International Review of Pragmatics 3, 292-303.
(2011) The individual in interaction: why cognitive and discourse-level pragmatics need not conflict. Intercultural Pragmatics 8/4, 517-542.
(2009) Variation in focus. In A. Riester and E. Onea (eds.), Focus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Working Papers of the SFB 732: Incremental Specification in Context, volume 3), University of Stuttgart. Available as PDF or print-on-demand here.
(2008) Review of Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Information structure: The syntax-discourse interface (OUP, 2007). Journal of Linguistics 44/1, pp233-238. Available online at Journal of Linguistics website.
(2007) Shared assumptions: semantic minimalism and Relevance Theory. Journal of Linguistics 43/3, pp. 647-681. Pre-publication version (PDF). Final version available online at Journal of Linguistics website.
(2007) Identifying inferences in focus. In K. Schwabe and S. Winkler (eds), On Information Structure, Meaning and Form. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pre-final draft (2006): PDF
(2006) Predication, focus and the positions of negation in Hungarian. Lingua 116/3, pp. 351-376. Pre-final Ms. [.ps]. Final version available in pdf from Lingua website
Daniel Wedgwood, Gergely Pethő and Ronnie Cann (Ms., 2006) Hungarian ‘focus position’ and English it-clefts: the semantic underspecification of ‘focus’ readings [Draft only; please do not cite or quote without permission. Comments welcome.]: PDF
(2005) The normality of 'metalinguistic' foci: a challenge to strict compositionality. In F. Richter and M. Sailer (eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI'05 Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality.
(2004) Using focus to improve definition: what counts in Hungarian quantification. In C. Meier and M. Weisgerber (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference "sub8 - Sinn und Bedeutung", 8th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 2003. Konstanzer Arbeitspapiere Linguistik, Universität Konstanz. pp. 317-332. Available online (PDF) from Konstanz University Library site.
(2003) Predication and Information Structure: A Dynamic Account of Hungarian Pre-verbal Syntax. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. Abstract, HTML| Whole thesis: postscript or pdf
(2002) 'Focus position' and quantification: the relevance of pragmatic theory. In I. Kenesei and P. Siptar (eds.) Approaches to Hungarian 8: Papers from the Budapest Conference. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado. pp. 241-260.
(2002) Approaches to weight, information and word order. In E. Chisarik and I. Sitaridou (eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth University of Manchester Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, 1999. postscript
For references to some work I did as an undergraduate, see Chapter 4 of Simon Kirby's (1999) book (a close relation of which is available online: Simon's PhD thesis.)
Email: dan@ling.ed.ac.uk
Last updated: February 2012.