Craige Roberts

Craige Roberts works in linguistics and philosophy of language, focusing on how meaning is shaped by context, discourse, and conversation. Key interests include how listeners figure out implied or presupposed information (presupposition), how questions and topics structure conversations (questions under discussion), and how speech acts like commands and modal expressions (e.g., 'must' or 'might') function pragmatically. This work sits at the intersection of formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophical logic.

Publication output has been steady but modest over the last decade, averaging fewer than one paper per year in the most recent five years, with occasional small upticks (e.g., 2019, 2023).

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