A sample of my work - feel free to contact me with requests for anything you cannot find here. I provide prepublication versions of published papers – page numbers and formatting may differ from final published versions. 

Dissertation

2011. Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

You can check out the slides from my March 29 dissertation defense for a relatively non-technical overview.

Publications

2010. Decision theory and discourse particles: a case study from a large Japanese sentiment corpus. Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 24).

2010. Affective demonstratives and the division of pragmatic labor. [Christopher Davis and Christopher Potts]. In Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz, eds., Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, 32-41.

2009. Decisions, Dynamics, and the Japanese Particle yo. Journal of Semantics 26(4):329-366. [pre-publication version; formatting differs from final published version, but is otherwise  the same]

2009. The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora. [Noah Constant, Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz]. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 33(1-2):5-22.

2009. Expressives and Identity Conditions.  [Christopher Potts, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Seth Cable, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric McCready, Tom Roeper, and Martin Walkow]. Linguistic Inquiry 40:356-366.

2007. The pragmatic values of evidential sentences. [Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts and Margaret Speas]. In Masayuki Gibson and Tova Friedman, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17, 71-88. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.

Slides, Handouts, etc.

2011. Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese. [slides from my March 29 dissertation defense]

2010. Particle Pragmatics. Invited talk at Kyoto University, November 8 (a modified and expanded version of my PACLIC 24 talk). [slides]

2010. Decision theory and discourse particles: a case study from a large Japanese sentiment corpus. Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation 24. November 4-7. [slides]

2010. Scope and Prosody in the Japanese Contrastive Topic Construction. Invited talk given at the 4th Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information (WPSI). September 18. [slides]

2009. Sentence final particles and intonation in Japanese. Talk given at the Fifth Workshop on Inferential Mechanisms and their Linguistic Manifestation, July 19th,  Kyoto University. [slides]

2008. Contexts, decisions, and the Japanese particle yo. Paper presented at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language 2008. [paper] [slides]

2006. Evidence against movement in Japanese relative clauses. Handout from ECO5 2006, MIT.

Corpus and Data Projects

UMass Amherst Linguistics Sentiment Corpora [Noah Constant, Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz]