naomicf
Academic interests
- Semantics, pragmatics, and their interface
- Interactions between at-issue and not-at-issue content
- Focus
- Polarity
- Discourse management strategies
Background
- August 2020-present: Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo investigating the role of gesture in objecting to discourse moves.
- November 2019-April 2020: Sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto (Canada).
- September 2019: Ph.D. in Linguistics (specialization: semantics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).
Personal website
Publications
Francis, Naomi. 2020. Licensing free choice any on an existential semantics for imperatives. In Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller & Juliane Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, 193-204.
Francis, Naomi & Sabine Iatridou. 2020. Modals and negation. In Viviane Déprez & M. Teresa Espinal (eds.), The Oxford Hanbook of Negation, 285-300. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Francis, Naomi. 2019. Imperatives under even. In Maggie Baird, Duygu Göksu & Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) 49, 265-278. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Francis, Naomi. 2018. Presupposition-denying uses of even. In Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake & Forrest Davis (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28, 161-176. LSA.
Francis, Naomi. 2017. Modal scope in negative inversion constructions. In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel & Edward J. Rubin (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 214-221. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Gick, Bryan, Naomi Francis, Anna Klenin, Ezra Mizrahi & Denise Tom. 2013. The velic traverse: An independent oral articulator? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(3), EL208-EL213.
Francis, Naomi, Jamie Ma & Bryan Gick. 2012. Aerotactile acuity as a predictor of sibilant contrast. Canadian Acoustics – Acoustique canadienne 40(3): 22-23.
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Francis, Naomi Clair (2021). Objecting to discourse moves with gestures. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. ISSN 2629-6055. 25, p. 267–275. doi: 10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.936.