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2024
Diep, Brian, Chenxi Xu, Molly Babel, & M. Ryan Bochnak: Prosody in Ktunaxa Interrogatives: An Initial Examination of Acoustics and Perception. In D. K. E. Reisinger, Laura Griffin, Ella Hannon, Gloria Mellesmoen, Sander Nederveen, Bruce Oliver, Julia Schillo, Lauren Schneider, and Bailey Trotter (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifty-Ninth International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 59). Vancouver: UBCWPL. pp. 52–67.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2024. Additive focus in alternative questions in Wá∙šiw. In Mariana Calderón-Corona, Polina Kasyanova and Eva Neu (eds.) 2024. SULA 12: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on the Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA). Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. pp. 47-61.
2023
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2023. Some aspects of aspect in Wá∙šiw. International Journal of American Linguistics 89(1): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1086/722242
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2023. Two types of future in Washo. In Daniel Reisinger and Rose Underhill (eds.), Proceedings of 25th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas. UBCWPL. pp. 16-30.
Bochnak, M. Ryan, Emily Hanink and Alan C.L. Yu. 2023. Wá∙šiw. In Carmen D’Agostino, Marianne Mithun and Keren Rice (eds.), Handbook of North American Languages, Vol. 2. Mouton de Gruyter. pp 1201-1221.
2022
Bochnak, M. Ryan & Emily Hanink. 2022. Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 40: 979-1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-021-09532-z
2021
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2021. Licensing the future in Washo. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 26, University of Cologne/online. September 8-10.
2020
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Lisa Matthewson. 2020. Techniques in complex semantic fieldwork. Annual Review of Linguistics 6: 261-283. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030452
Hohaus, Vera and M. Ryan Bochnak. 2020. The grammar of degree: Gradability across languages. Annual Review of Linguistics 6: 235-259. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012009
Bochnak, M. Ryan, Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. 2020. Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 25, Queen Mary University London/online, September 3-8.
2019
Bochnak, M. Ryan, Vera Hohaus and Anne Mucha. 2019. Variation in tense and aspect, and the temporal interpretation of complement clauses. Journal of Semantics 36(3): 407-452. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz008
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2019. Future temporal reference with and without future marking. Language and Linguistics Compass 13(1): e12307 (22 pages). https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12307
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Martina Martinović. 2019. Optional past tense in Wolof. In Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, Robert Botne & Samuel Gyasi Obeng (eds.), African Linguistics Across the Disciplines: Selected Papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Lingusitics: 187-202. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Bochnak, M. Ryan, Miriam Butt, Erlinde Meertens and Mark-Matthias Zymla (eds.). 2019. Proceedings of Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 5. Tübingen University Library. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/93789
2018
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Martina Martinović. 2018. Event-relative modality: The case of Wolof imperfective di. In Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Vol.1: 223-240.
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Eva Csipak. 2018. Reportative deontic modality in English and German. In Robert Truswell et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Vol 1: 199-214.
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Peter Klecha. 2018. Temporal remoteness and vagueness in past time reference in Luganda. In Jason Kandybowicz, Travis Major, Harold Torrence and Philip T. Duncan (eds.), Proceedings of Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 45: 377-391.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2018. Two place exceed comparatives in Luganda. In Jason Kandybowicz, Travis Major, Harold Torrence and Philip T. Duncan (eds.), Proceedings of Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 45: 361-375.
2017
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2017. Sequence of optional tense. In Dan Burgdorf, Jacob Collard, Sireemas Maspong and Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir (eds)., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27: 636-654.
Hanink, Emily and M. Ryan Bochnak. 2017. Factivity and two types of embedded clauses in Washo. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.), Proceedings of North-East Linguistic Society (NELS) 47, Vol.2: 65-78.
2016
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2016. Past time reference in a language with optional tense. Linguistics and Philosophy 39: 247-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9191-6
Klecha, Peter and M. Ryan Bochnak. 2016. Temporal remoteness and relativity. In Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett (eds.), Proceedings of North-East Linguistic Society (NELS) 46 Vol.2: 213-226.
2015
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2015. The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation. Semantics and Pragmatics Volume 8, Article 6: 1-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.8.6
Beltrama, Andrea and M. Ryan Bochnak. 2015. Intensification without degrees cross-linguistically. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33(3): 843-879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-015-9294-8
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Lisa Matthewson (eds.). 2015. Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press.
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten. 2015. Investigating gradable predicates, comparison, and degree constructions in underrepresented languages. In M. Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson, eds., Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork, 110-134. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2015. Variable force modality in Washo. In Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız (eds.), Proceedings of North-East Linguistic Society (NELS) 45 Vol.1: 105-114.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2015. Degree achievements in a degree-less language. In Jérémy Pasquereau (ed.), Proceedings of Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 8: 17-32.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2015. Underspecified modality in Washo. In Natalie Weber and Sihwei Chen (eds.), Proceedings of Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 18: 3-17.
2014
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Eva Csipak. 2014. A new metalinguistic degree morpheme. In Todd Snider, Sarah D’Antonio and Mia Weigand (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 24: 432-452.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2014. Review of Universals in Comparative Morphology by Jonathan D. Bobaljik, MIT Press (2012). Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?SubID=22748791
2013
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2013. Cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of comparatives. University of Chicago PhD dissertation.
Bochnak, M. Ryan and Alice Rhomieux. 2013. Limited noun incorporation in Washo. International Journal of American Linguistics 79(2): 253-281. https://doi.org/10.1086/669630
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2013. Scale exhaustivity and the Modification Condition. In Anca Chereches and Todd Snider (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 23, 116-135. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2013. The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo. In Stefan Keine and Shayne Slogget (eds.), Proceedings of North-East Linguistic Society (NELS) 42, 79-92. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2013. Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase. In Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke and Rafael Marín (eds.), Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates, 99-123. Dordrecht: Springer.
2012
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2012. Managing vagueness, imprecision and loose talk in Washo: the case of šemu. In Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (ed.) Proceedings of Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA) 6, 1-14. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2011
Bochnak, M. Ryan, Timothy Grinsell and Alan Yu. 2011. Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo. In Alexis Black and Meagan Louie (eds.) Proceedings of Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 16, 1-10. Vancouver: UBCWPL.
2010
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2010. Quantity and gradability across categories. In Nan Li and David Lutz (eds.) Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20, 251-268. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Bochnak, M. Ryan. 2010. Promiscuous modification and cross-categorial scale structure. In Iksoo Kwon, Hannah Pritchett and Justin Spence (eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 25-36. Berkeley: BLS.